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=☽ November 7th, YDAU - Joelle goes to Molly Notkin's party=<br />
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==Page 219==<br />
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[[Image:MIT.png|thumb|caption|MIT Seal|150px|right]]<br />
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'''perfunctory'''<br /><br />
(of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection.<br />
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'''striated'''<br /><br />
marked with stripes or streaks<br />
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'''Cukor'''<br /><br />
George Dewey Cukor (1899-1983) was an American [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/ film director].<br />
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'''Murnau in Méliès's fiberglass lap'''<br /><br />
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) was a German expressionist filmmaker who later worked in Hollywood. He made the classic vampire film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/ "Nosferatu"] (1922). Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (1861-1938) was a French filmmaker, famous for the 1902 silent [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ "A Trip to the Moon"] (featured in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/ "Hugo"]).<br />
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'''cummerbund'''<br /><br />
the band of fabric worn around the waist with a tuxedo<br />
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'''M.I.T.-crested'''<br /><br />
see right<br />
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'''low-pH chemist'''<br /><br />
i.e., he worked with acids<br />
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'''pernicious'''<br /><br />
having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.<br />
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'''piebald'''<br /><br />
having patches of black and white<br />
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'''G.W. Pabst'''<br /><br />
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a Bohemian-born Austrian filmmaker.<br />
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'''tumescence'''<br /><br />
the quality or state of being tumescent especially : readiness for sexual activity marked especially by vascular congestion of the sex organs.<br />
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'''sorghum'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum grain] used in the production of molasses, alcoholic beverages, and animal feed<br />
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'''tumefies'''<br /><br />
swells<br />
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'''sororal'''<br /><br />
another word for "sisterly"<br />
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'''sub-rosa'''<br /><br />
From the Latin "under the rose," this word means secretly held.<br />
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'''sienna-glazed'''<br /><br />
glazed with an earth-based pigment<br />
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'''polyresin'''<br /><br />
a resin compound used to make figurines, among other things<br />
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'''staccato'''<br /><br />
in music, notes that are sounded in a detached and distinct manner<br />
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'''cataract'''<br /><br />
In the non-ophthalmic sense, this word means "waterfall."<br />
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==Page 222==<br />
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'''NOTRE RAI PAYS'''<br /><br />
perhaps idiomatic French (literally "our spoke [''or'' ray] country") for "our home away from home," indicating Québec's colonial status with respect to motherland France; potentially meant to be translated as "our shining land". [Or perhaps the V fell off from NOTRE VRAI PAYS, our true country, -different editor]<br />
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'''.473-liter'''<br /><br />
16 ounces, a pint<br />
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'''Big Red Soda Water'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.bigredltd.com/ real brand] similar to cream soda, only red. This was originally only sold in Central/South Texas and Kentucky and is still popular in that region, though available elsewhere.<br />
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'''Chore Boy'''<br /><br />
a brand of [http://www.choreboyscrubbers.com/ scrubbing pads]. The copper version of these pads can be used as a filter for smoking crack.<br />
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'''two-k. square'''<br /><br />
0.77 square miles<br />
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'''Disgorge'''<br /><br />
Eject<br />
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'''Monogram'''<br /><br />
a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced<br />
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'''selvage'''<br /><br />
the finished edge of a piece of fabric, so done to prevent fraying<br />
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'''Neonatal'''<br /><br />
of or relating to newborn children.<br />
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'''The afternoon's meshes.'''<br /><br />
recalls an experimental film by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshes_of_the_Afternoon Meshes of the Afternoon] (1943)<br />
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'''delimits'''<br /><br />
establishes the boundaries of<br />
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'''Acetate''' <br /><br />
Rayon<br />
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=Chronology of O.N.A.N.'s Revenue-Enhancing Subsidized Time™=<br />
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==Page 223==<br />
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See [[Subsidized Time]].<br />
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==Endnote 78==<br />
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'''G.F.R. Co.'''<br /><br />
perhaps [http://www.gfr.cc/ Global Food Resources]<br />
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'''Zanesville OH'''<br /><br />
a town 55 miles east of Columbus<br />
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'''Vienna VA'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Washington, D.C., about 15 miles due west of the city<br />
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=Joelle, cont.=<br />
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==Page 223==<br />
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'''Colonel Shaw and the MA 54th'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw Robert Gould Shaw] was a Bostonian killed in the Civil War while commanding the all-black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. A relief sculpture [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gould_Shaw_Memorial memorial] to him is located on Beacon Street (not Boylston Street) in front of the Massachusetts State House.<br />
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'''tumbrel'''<br /><br />
a cart for hauling manure or for hauling victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution<br />
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'''imprecated'''<br /><br />
called down curses upon someone<br />
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'''Delphina'''<br /><br />
name of a [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04701a.htm beatified Catholic virgin]<br />
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==Endnote 79==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Trial-Sized Dove Bar]]<br />
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==Page 225 (cont'd)==<br />
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'''Veedersburg, Indiana and Powell, Wyoming'''<br /><br />
Veedersburg is about 70 miles west-northwest of Indianapolis; Powell is about 90 miles south of Billings, Mont.<br />
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'''parallax'''<br /><br />
This is "the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''). "Difference or change in the apparent position or direction of an object as seen from two different points" (OED) <br />
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'''penultimate'''<br /><br />
next to the last<br />
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==Page 226==<br />
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'''8-gram'''<br /><br />
a bit over a quarter of an ounce<br />
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'''wildly carbuncular wife'''<br /><br />
This is a reference to Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964), wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (the quote has also been attributed to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Braddock#Trivia Bessie Braddock])<br />
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'''P.M.U.K.'''<br /><br />
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom<br />
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'''Lend-Lease'''<br /><br />
a program between the beginning of World War II and U.S. entry after the bombing of Pearl Harbor whereby the U.S. government provided materiel to Britain (and later the Soviets) in return for military bases<br />
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'''scopophobic'''<br /><br />
scopophobia is the morbid fear of being seen or stared at by others<br />
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'''he was indeed inebriated...while she...would tomorrow still be hideously and improbably deformed.''' <br /><br />
Many versions of this witty exchange between Winston Churchill and a woman have been propagated over the the years. It may or may not have actually occurred.<br />
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=Helen P. Steeply's (putative) c.v.=<br />
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'''putative'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
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'''curriculum vitae'''<br /><br />
résumé<br />
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'''1.98 M., 104 KG., A.B., M.J.A.'''<br /><br />
1.98 meters is about 6'4" tall. 104 kg is around 230 lbs. She's enormous.<br />
: 1.93m (about 6'3") according to the original hardcover.<br />
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A.B. is the older Latin equivalent (''Artium Baccalaureus'' or ''Artium Baccalaureatus'') of B.A., i.e., Bachelor of Arts. M.J.A. is Master of Justice Administration.<br />
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'''''Decade Magazine'''''<br /><br />
probably not a real publication <!-- A list of articles from this publication can be found [http://www.caribouschools.org/secondary/chs/library/Social%20Studies/Decade%20Project/Decadeindex.htm here]. --Note, this was the former text here, which is a broken link that I don't think had any relation to the magazine, presumably of DFW's invention. --><br />
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'''''Southwest Annual'''''<br /><br />
probably not a real publication<br />
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'''''Ladies Day'''''<br /><br />
also not a real publication<br />
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'''Erythema AZ'''<br /><br />
not a real town, but erythema is a [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9363881/erythema real disease]<br />
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=Joelle, cont.=<br />
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'''A.B.D.'''<br /><br />
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.<br />
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[[Image:Homburg.jpg|thumb|caption|Homburg Hat|150px|right]]<br />
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'''Homburg'''<br /><br />
A homburg is a stiff felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown and a brim fixed in a tight, upwards curl. It is superficially similar to the trilby or fedora; trilbys and fedoras, however, have soft, "snappable" brims and can have various designs "pinched" into the crown, whereas the shape of a homburg is fixed. (see right) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_(hat) Wikipedia]<br />
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'''Wiesbaden'''<br /><br />
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]<br />
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'''the A.M.'s interruptus'''<br /><br />
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase ''coitus interrruptus'', i.e., "pulling out." (See the [http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_157-181#Page_171 Consummation of the Levirates].) <br />
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The A.M.'s interruptus could refer to her "quitting" her drug use that morning.<br />
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'''Maya Deren'''<br /><br />
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/].<br />
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==Page 229==<br />
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'''glycine'''<br /><br />
one of the 20 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine amino acids] found in proteins; however, DFW probably meant to say 'glassine bags'<br />
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'''Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum'''<br /><br />
These both seem to be invented people.... Continuing with the optics theme, Keck is a major observatory on the big island of Hawaii. Rutherford could refer to a British nuclear physicist who pioneered an erroneous model of the atom and discovered the concept of radioactive half-life.<br />
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'''Infernatron Viewer'''<br /><br />
A type of TP (Teleputer) as seen it Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install-Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office Or Mobile (sic). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video Interlacing] video makes it possible to cut the frame rate in half but can cause [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video#Interlacing_problems problems]. The infernatron has to deliver the same "mimetic resolution" as the interlaced model at double the frame rate making it a very advanced television/telephone computer. If it's a portmanteau of infernal and electron that could be making a statement about DFW's TV addiction.<br />
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'''Smothergill'''<br /><br />
...as does this...<br />
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'''Miriam Prickett'''<br /><br />
...and this.<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]<br />
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'''Franciscan bald spot'''<br /><br />
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan Orders of Friars Minor] were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.<br />
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'''paps'''<br /><br />
breasts or nipples<br />
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'''diphthong'''<br /><br />
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another in the same syllable. "Splitting the diphthong" in "beautiful" is pronouncing it bee-yoo-ti-ful. <br />
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'''febrile'''<br /><br />
feverish<br />
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'''scopophiliac'''<br /><br />
An individual affected with the desire to look at sexually stimulating scenes especially as a substitute for actual sexual participation. From the translation of the Freudian notion of Schaulust, "pleasure in looking," in the sense of both seeing and being seen, as well as "curiosity." Freud distinguished between two frequently encountered forms of this partial drive: one active, "voyeurism," and the other passive, "exhibitionism," neither of which he would necessarily rank among perversions. [cf. scopophobic (p.226) & scopophilia (p.832)] <br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.S.D.B.]]<br />
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'''Boaz'''<br /><br />
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia<br />
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'''Vogelsong'''<br /><br />
"Vogel" = German for "bird", i.e. something like: bird song ("song" is not German)<br />
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'''Emerson College'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.emerson.edu/ college] in Boston<br />
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'''ectoplasm'''<br /><br />
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit<br />
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'''afflatus'''<br /><br />
inspiration; a divine imparting of knowledge or power<br />
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'''aural'''<br /><br />
of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing<br />
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'''dithers'''<br /><br />
behaves in a nervous or agitated way<br />
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'''jaundice'''<br /><br />
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease<br />
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'''b & w'''<br /><br />
black and white<br />
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'''Bouvier'''<br /><br />
[[Wikipedia:Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]'s maiden surname<br />
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'''''f''-stop'''<br /><br />
The ratio of the [[wikipedia:focal length|focal length]] (''f'') of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its [[wikipedia:aperture|aperture]]" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition''). The higher the number, the smaller the aperture, and the greater the depth of field.<br />
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'''old super 8'''<br /><br />
They had a slow frame rate. Aperture is relative to shutter speed. The person speaking here seems very confused about everything they're saying. (This reader disagrees. The relationship of aperture to shutter speed is constrained by frame rate. So called super 8 differed in aspect ratio, but not frame rate, from 8 mm.)<br />
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'''''Berliner'''''<br />h<br />
Technically, it's called the ''Berliner Pfannkuchen'' (doughnut). There was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner#Jelly_doughnut_misconception misconception] that JFK said he was a doughnut in his 1963 speech (see the next page).<br />
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'''vulgate'''<br /><br />
common or colloquial speech.<br />
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'''idiom'''<br /><br />
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).<br />
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'''seminal'''<br /><br />
(of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments.<br />
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'''''Ich bein ein Berliner'''''<br /><br />
''Bein'' is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "leg". The first-person singular of ''sein'' ("to be") is ''bin''. Still, the wrong spelling may be related to Kennedy's wrong pronunciation of this sentence. <br />
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'''Teutonic'''<br /><br />
The [[wiki:Teutons|Teutons]] were a Germanic tribe or Celtic people.<br />
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'''TA'''<br /><br />
Teaching Assistant<br />
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'''Doubles the focal-length'''<br /><br />
Zooms the camera in.<br />
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'''''À du nous avons foi au poison'''''<br /><br />
French (roughly): We have faith in poison [the French or Québecois is itself quite rough]<br />
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'''Eve Plumb'''<br /><br />
She played Jan Brady on ''The Brady Bunch''.<br />
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'''Henderson'''<br /><br />
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady<br />
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'''Davis'''<br /><br />
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid<br />
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'''Peter'''<br /><br />
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight<br />
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'''Greg'''<br /><br />
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams<br />
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'''raison'''<br /><br />
raison d'être - reason or justification for existence<br />
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'''ineluct-'''<br /><br />
ineluctable - not able to be avoided or changed<br />
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'''''De gustibus non est disputandum'''''<br /><br />
Latin: There's no accounting for taste (literally, "tastes are not disputable")<br />
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'''Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux'''<br /><br />
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/ Battleship Potemkin]. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778 Oscar Micheaux] (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker.<br />
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'''tesseract'''<br /><br />
4 dimensional hypercube [[File:tesseract.gif|thumb|Tesseract|100px]]<br />
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'''draw a bead'''<br /><br />
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle<br />
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'''ten m.'''<br /><br />
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.<br />
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'''Heideggerian'''<br /><br />
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.<br />
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'''''a priori'''''<br /><br />
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made. In the context of Heidegger, it refers to things that can be known without any experience of the world, usually because they involve the structure of the mind or of concepts. <br />
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'''wraith'''<br /><br />
another word for "ghost"<br />
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'''labile'''<br /><br />
unstable<br />
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'''''The Incision'''''<br /><br />
I could locate no film by this name. (In my opinion, that is because it is a fictional film or cartridge, perhaps directed and produced by James O. Incandenza, and perhaps his son Mario is the cinematographer being sought in the conversation.)<br />
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'''- way it can be film qua film--answering their phone'''<br /><br />
this next paragraph is most likely about the movie Infinite jest. Sounds like porn. DFW speaks on the coming of virtual reality porn in a few 1996 interviews. VR headsets and porn will be released at the end of 2015.<br />
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'''qua'''<br /><br />
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character or capacity of."<br />
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'''dopamine'''<br /><br />
[[wikipedia:dopamine|dopamine]] is a neurotransmitter. It plays major role in arousal and sexual gratification<br />
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'''suprasubliminal'''<br /><br />
supra means above. so it's not subliminal... perhaps liminal<br />
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'''post-annular'''<br /><br />
after the onset of annular fusion (elsewhere discussed) [editor changes] see [[wikipedia:annulus|annulus]] - still the same meaning "ringlike". The inguinal ring is annular and at either end of the [[wikipedia:Inguinal canal|Inguinal canal]] where sperm is made. [editor changes] Sperm is not made at either end of the inguinal canal. It is made in the testes, which are located in the scrotum, below either end of the inguinal canal.. <br />
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'''Scopophiliacal'''<br /><br />
Scopophilia is deriving pleasure from looking. As an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects: erotic photographs, pornography, naked bodies, etc.<br />
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'''blinis'''<br /><br />
Russian crepes<br />
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'''tartines'''<br /><br />
a type of French open-faced sandwich<br />
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'''sweetbreads'''<br /><br />
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)<br />
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'''glacé'''<br /><br />
French for "iced" or “glazed,” in the culinary not architectural sense<br />
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'''Morris Mini'''<br /><br />
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Minor Morris Minor] a British car made from 1948–71.<br />
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'''Charles'''<br /><br />
Brandeis University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are all located along the [[wikipedia:charles river|charles river]]<br />
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'''ipecac'''<br /><br />
derived from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipecacuanha ipecacuanha plant], a syrup produced to induce vomiting<br />
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'''clapper'''<br /><br />
[[wikipedia:clapperboard|little board]] at the beginning of takes that opens and snaps shut to sync video and audio. It also designates and marks particular scenes and takes<br />
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'''Dishmaster'''<br /><br />
see [[Subsidized Time]]<br />
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'''whorls'''<br /><br />
a pattern of spirals or concentric circles. A fingerprint is an example.<br />
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'''Makavajev'''<br /><br />
Born in 1932, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538445/ Dusan Makavejev] (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.<br />
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'''Shiny Prize, Kentucky'''<br /><br />
not a real town<br />
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'''1.7 meters tall'''<br /><br />
a little over 5'6"<br />
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'''48 kilograms'''<br /><br />
about 106 pounds (This makes her about 15-30 pounds below her ideal weight.)<br />
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'''volition'''<br /><br />
the faculty or power of using one's will.<br />
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'''wopse'''<br/><br />
to heap, wrap, or tangle in a disorderly way<br />
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'''phalloneurotic'''<br /><br />
a portmanteau of ''phallus'' and ''neurotic'', probably intended to mean a mental disorder involving obsession with one's penis, or perhaps with penis more generally; the "phalloneurotic" New Yorker is Molly Notkin's love interest<br />
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'''EZ-Widers'''<br /><br />
a brand of cigarette rolling papers<br />
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'''Cyrillic'''<br /><br />
employing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet Cyrillic alphabet], as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.<br />
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'''mollified'''<br /><br />
softened in feeling and temper<br />
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'''soft rock's grim dental association'''<br /><br />
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office<br />
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'''Kinski as Paganini'''<br /><br />
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098052/ Kinski Paganini].<br />
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'''Léaud as Doinel'''<br /><br />
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027246/ films].<br />
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'''Peterson's ''The Lead Shoes'''''<br /><br />
An 18-minute [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8Dlxpu0gM film] by Sidney Peterson (1949), preceded by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's great [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/ ''The Red Shoes''](1948) with Moira Shearer. (Cf. the color in the title of the fictitious monograph in endnote 81.)<br />
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'''pomander'''<br /><br />
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''elision'''<br /><br />
the process of joining together or merging things, especially abstract ideas<br />
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'''dicky'''<br /><br />
impaired<br />
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'''bathetic'''<br /><br />
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)<br />
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'''neat bourbon'''<br /><br />
bourbon without ice<br />
<br />
'''Vittoria'''<br /><br />
a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Vittoria Santa Maria della Vittoria], where [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa_September_2015-2a.jpg the mentioned work] by Bernini hangs<br />
<br />
'''recumbent'''<br /><br />
reclining<br />
<br />
'''Gleem'''<br /><br />
a brand of toothpaste<br />
<br />
'''NoCoat scraper'''<br /><br />
Presumably refers to NoCoat LinguaScrapers (tongue scrapers) mentioned on [http://wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=Pages_127-156#Page_151 Page 151].<br />
<br />
'''NeGram'''<br /><br />
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections<br />
<br />
'''depilatory'''<br /><br />
for removal of hair<br />
<br />
'''Monostat'''<br /><br />
actually Monistat, a brand name of miconazole, used for treatment for vaginal [and other] yeast infections<br />
<br />
'''Parapectolin'''<br /><br />
a mixture of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin kaolinite] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin pectin], used to change the appearance of the stool in patients with diarrhea. Some persons whimsically refer to this as "treatment."<br />
<br />
'''Diaphragm foam'''<br /><br />
Vaginal Contraceptive Foam<br />
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'''Kodachrome'''<br /><br />
a brand name of color positive camera film manufactured by Kodak. [Positive means that when the exposed film is developed, at can be projected as a color slide.]<br />
<br />
'''Reynolds Wrap'''<br /><br />
a brand name of aluminum foil<br />
<br />
'''baking soda'''<br /><br />
Joelle is making crack, as opposed to 'freebase cocaine' which requires ether. Crack production is procedurally distinct (and safer) from that of purer 'freebase cocaine,' but the freebase products are the same: the baking soda serves to ''free'' the cocaine ''base'' from the pure cocaine hydrochloride. Both methods produce crystals that can be smoked. The production method of Joelle's earlier "home made freebase cocaine" is uncertain, but conventional terminology suggests she makes the ether-based variety at home.<br />
<br />
'''C knob'''<br /><br />
the knob for cold water<br />
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'''Paducah'''<br /><br />
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.<br />
<br />
'''Qantas'''<br /><br />
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand<br />
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==Page 238==<br />
<br />
'''fillips'''<br /><br />
a sharp tap, "made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it (so as to propel some small object, or merely as a gesture)" (OED)<br />
<br />
'''mâché'''<br /><br />
French for "chewed" indicating here bits and pieces of the material. e.g., papier mâché<br />
<br />
'''S.O.P.'''<br /><br />
Standard Operating Procedure<br />
<br />
'''imperial'''<br /><br />
[[Image:Napoleon-III-Imperial-Beard.jpg|thumb|caption|Napoleon III & His Beard|150px|left]] Refers to the small pointed beard made famous by Napoleon III (at left)<br />
<br />
'''"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."'''<br /><br />
a play on [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:2;&version=9; Genesis 1:2]<br /><br />
''And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.''<br />
<br />
'''"...that skull fragment out of the ''Hamlet'' graveyard scene..."'''<br /><br />
i.e., "infinite jest"<br />
<br />
'''Mad Stork'''<br /><br />
the nickname for former NFL linebacker [http://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1046 Ted Hendricks]. This might be in the category of true, but not related. Given his great height and his mannerisms, J.O.I. could easily have earned the nickname on his own, and been assigned it by persons who attended not at all to professional football.<br />
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==Page 239==<br />
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'''banal'''<br /><br />
hackneyed or trite<br />
<br />
'''Prettiest G.O.A.T.'''<br /><br />
Though G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's an oxymoron, because "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.<br />
<br />
'''slew-footed'''<br /><br />
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle<br />
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==Page 240==<br />
<br />
'''white- party-noise'''<br /><br />
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom<br />
<br />
'''stretto'''<br /><br />
section at the end of a fugue in which successive introductions of the theme follow at shorter intervals than before, increasing the sense of excitement.<br />
<br />
''''We've Only Just Begun''''<br /><br />
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifrxqw5ldfe Carpenters] in 1970<br />
<br />
'''mercuric red'''<br /><br />
red as the color made by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbromin MercuroChrome] brand of merbromin, an organometallic compound formerly used as a topical antiseptic.<br />
<br />
=☽ - Enfield, MA=<br />
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==Page 240==<br />
<br />
Note: Most of these places exist but there is no such town (anymore) as Enfield, Mass. The real town of Enfield, Mass, was one of four disincorporated during the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir in western Mass. The others were Dana, Greenwich, and Prescott.<br />
<br />
'''Di[s]calced'''<br /><br />
Apparently there is a misspelling in some editions. My Kindle edition has the correct spelling. The correct term would be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites Discalced Carmelites], which means they go barefoot or wear sandals.<br />
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==Page 241==<br />
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'''RCC'''<br /><br />
Roman Catholic Church<br />
<br />
'''''les trebuchets noirs'''''<br /><br />
French: the black catapults<br />
<br />
'''5 km'''<br /><br />
about 3.1 miles<br />
<br />
'''brachiform'''<br /><br />
in the shape of an arm<br />
<br />
'''75 hectares'''<br /><br />
almost 900,000 square yards<br />
<br />
'''palisades'''<br /><br />
fences<br />
<br />
'''guano'''<br /><br />
feces, particularly of birds or bats<br />
<br />
'''four-km.'''<br /><br />
almost 2.5 miles<br />
<br />
'''coaxial'''<br /><br />
[[wikipedia:coaxial cable|coaxial cable]]<br />
A type of cable that has an inner conductor surrounded by a tubular insulating layer, surrounded by a tubular conducting shield.<br />
<br />
'''Sunstrand'''<br /><br />
not a real place. <br />
[[wikipedia:Sundstrand Corporation|Sundstrand Corporation]] makes Aerospace and Industrial Products.<br />
<br />
'''ohm'''<br /><br />
unit of electrical resistance<br />
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==Page 242==<br />
<br />
'''Ø's'''<br /><br />
This could refer to all the zeros in the presumably large number of amps in the warning signs, but it may also refer (in plural) to the internationally recognized graphic prohibition sign, i.e., the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ No symbol], although the graphic incorporates a red circle with a backslash (from top left to bottom right, rather than bottom left to top right), as for the zero symbol. The numerical symbol incorporates the forward slash to distinguish it from the capital letter O. Also a Scandinavian vowel letter, uncial, probably not germane to DFW's usage here.<br />
<br />
'''A.D.E.'''<br /><br />
one of ATSHCME's Air-Displacement Effectuators<br />
<br />
=November 5th, YDAU - Hal and Orin discuss Himself's suicide=<br />
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==Page 242==<br />
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[http://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/index.php?title=L Barry Loach] is Head Trainer at E.T.A.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 82==<br />
[[Notes and Errata - Pages 983-1079#Endnote 82|Endnote 82]]<br />
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==Page 243==<br />
<br />
'''caroms'''<br /><br />
rebounds<br />
<br />
'''1100 meters'''<br /><br />
a little over 3,600 feet<br />
<br />
'''Superstition mountains'''<br /><br />
a real range east of Phoenix<br />
<br />
'''precipice'''<br /><br />
a cliff with a vertical face<br />
<br />
'''''propitiate'''''<br /><br />
to conciliate, appease or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit<br />
<br />
'''apotropaic barn-signs'''<br /><br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_sign Hex signs] commonly seen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ostensibly intended to ward off evil, but now probably used more as a decorative element<br />
<br />
'''Popogatapec'''<br /><br />
Neologism, possibly a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popocat%C3%A9petl Popocatépetl] an active volcano, located in Central Mexico<br />
<br />
'''Ahts of Vancouver'''<br /><br />
another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth Nuu-chah-nulth], the indigenous peoples of Vancouver Island, Canada<br />
<br />
'''Micturation'''<br /><br />
micturition, urination<br />
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==Page 244==<br />
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'''200-kilo'''<br /><br />
about 441 pounds<br />
<br />
'''apposite'''<br /><br />
pertinent<br />
<br />
'''Papineau-region'''<br /><br />
a region, defined variously for various purposes, of southwestern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papineau_Regional_County_Municipality Québec]<br />
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==Page 245==<br />
<br />
'''decamp'''<br /><br />
to depart secretly<br />
<br />
'''domino-mask'''<br /><br />
This is "a large, hooded cloak with a mask covering the eyes, worn at masquerades" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''lacuna'''<br /><br />
a missing part. OED: "In a manuscript, an inscription, the text of an author: A hiatus, blank, missing portion"<br />
<br />
'''discursive'''<br /><br />
rambling, digressing from subject to subject<br />
<br />
'''diorama'''<br /><br />
a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit.<br />
<br />
'''frothy biblical saw''' <br/><br />
a trifling or empty biblical proverb<br />
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==Page 246==<br />
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'''rodneys'''<br /><br />
cigarettes, the intent is to denigrate the magazine as some kind of impulse buy<br />
<br />
'''refracted'''<br /><br />
bent or twisted by a change in medium. An optics term, so this is an oblique reference to filming.<br />
<br />
'''Cardinal Stadium'''<br /><br />
The Arizona Cardinals now play in the University of Phoenix Stadium.<br />
<br />
==Page 247==<br />
<br />
'''Royal Victoria'''<br /><br />
The Royal Victoria College was a women's college created as part of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.<br />
<br />
'''Lyle'''<br /><br />
The Sweat Guru<br />
<br />
'''annulation'''<br /><br />
forming rings. Possibly a metaphor for having children. <br/><br />
[[wikipedia:Robinson_annulation|Robinson annulation]] is used to make cortisone. Himself most likely had cortisone shots in his knees after his fall.<br/><br />
In French, with which <i>IJ</i> is permeated, "action de rendre nul" or nullification, cancellation.<br />
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==Page 248==<br />
<br />
'''Rog and Wilc,O.'''<br /><br />
"Roger Wilco, Orin" - Roger Wilco is a radio communication meaning Roger - "I received your message./" and Wilco - "I will comply."<br />
<br />
''''20 for 28 is what, 65%?''''<br /><br />
It's a little over 71%.<br />
<br />
==Page 249==<br />
<br />
'''telemachry'''<br /><br />
Maybe not the word Hal was looking for, but Telemachus was a monk who tried to stop the Roman gladiator fights and told the Romans to stop worshiping false idols instead of Christ. He was stoned to death, though his death is sometimes said to have ended the Gladiatorial games. So, "telemachry" could be interpreted to be trust in a higher power. <br/><br />
Another Telemachus, perhaps more widely known, was the son of Odysseus, for whom was named <i>The Odyssey</i>.<br />
<br />
'''telemetry'''<br /><br />
the transmission of something automatically and at a distance -- here, Hal's toenails to the wastebasket<br />
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==Page 250==<br />
'''asphyxuated''' <br/ ><br />
There's no clear reason for Orin's mispronunciation of ''asphyxiated''. Perhaps he's combining ''asphyxia'' and ''evacuated''.<br />
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==Page 251==<br />
<br />
'''magnitron'''<br /><br />
a misspelling of "magnetron," which is "a two-element vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons is under the influence of an external magnetic field, used to generate extremely short radio waves" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''kg.s.cm.'''<br /><br />
kilograms per square centimeter, as a measurement of pressure, like pounds per square inch; could just be a reference to kilogram-second-centimeter, or a form of the metric system (though the metric systems usually have 'second' last - as in CGS [centimeter-gram-second] or MKS [meter-kilogram-second]), though 'two sticks of TNT' doesn't really imply a system of units.<br />
<br />
'''evince'''<br /><br />
reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling). (NOAD)<br />
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==Page 252==<br />
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'''hombré''' [sic]<br /><br />
hombre, Spanish for man, is intended<br />
<br />
'''synclinal'''<br /><br />
sloping downward from opposite directions to meet in a common point or line<br />
<br />
'''Adriatic'''<br /><br />
the sea between the west coast of Italy and the Balkan peninsula<br />
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==Page 253==<br />
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'''StairMaster'''<br /><br />
a brand name of exercise machines<br />
<br />
'''Kübler-Ross, Hinton'''<br /><br />
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (1926-2004) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist and specialist on death and dying. John Hinton is a British contemporary expert in the field.<br />
<br />
'''Kastenbaum and Kastenbaum'''<br /><br />
Robert J. Kastenbaum is another prominent scholar in the field of death and dying. I can't find another person by that name, so perhaps Hal is referring to multiple volumes by the same Kastenbaum.<br />
<br />
'''Elizabeth Harper Neeld's ''Seven Choices: Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love'''''<br /><br />
A real book, it's actually 343 pages. (The 1997 edition is 343 pages, but an earlier publishing may have been 352.)<br />
<br />
'''acceptance / Wyclif and 14th-century ''langue-d'oc'' French'''<br /><br />
John Wyclif was a 14th century English theologian. He made the first translation of the Bible into English, thus his importance to etymology in general. ''Langue d'oc'' is another name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_d%27oc Occitan] language. The ''OED'' actually dates the earliest usage of the word "acceptance" to 1596 by Shakespeare in ''The Merchant of Venice''.<br />
<br />
'''Hindi'''<br /><br />
a national language of India and one of the most widely spoken<br />
<br />
'''Gila monster'''<br /><br />
a venomous lizard native to the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, known for its tenacious bite<br />
<br />
'''hypertensive'''<br /><br />
having high blood pressure<br />
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<br />
'''''Leaves of Grass'''''<br /><br />
the most famous volume of poetry by Walt Whitman. Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems.<br />
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==Page 255==<br />
<br />
'''unfazable'''<br /><br />
incapable of being fazed or disturbed<br />
<br />
'''paroxysmic'''<br /><br />
<i>paroxysmal</i> is much the more common modern variant. OED: characterized by a violent attack or outburst of emotion or activity<br />
<br />
==Page 256==<br />
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'''half a meter'''<br /><br />
about 1.64 feet<br />
<br />
==Page 257==<br />
<br />
'''dewlaps'''<br /><br />
loose flesh as under the jaw of a cow<br />
<br />
'''"...when Luke removes his high-tech targeting helmet..."'''<br /><br />
Hal is referring to a scene from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ Star Wars]; Luke is Luke Skywalker.<br />
<br />
'''vestiges'''<br /><br />
a part or organ of an organism that has become reduced or functionless in the course of evolution.<br />
<br />
'''atavistic'''<br /><br />
relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.<br />
<br />
'''coccyges'''<br /><br />
plural of coccyx, i.e., the tailbone<br />
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'''jonquil-yellow'''<br /><br />
another name for the flower known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonquil narcissus] or daffodil<br />
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=☽ Late October (22nd), YDAU - WYYY, Madame Psychosis=<br />
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==Page 181==<br />
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'''Madame Psychosis'''<br /><br />
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host, and perhaps a punning allusion to metempsychosis<br />
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<br />
'''apotheosizing'''<br /><br />
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level<br />
<br />
'''patricidal'''<br /><br />
having a tendency to kill one's father<br />
<br />
'''literally sophomoric'''<br /><br />
i.e. as in "immature", not "like a second-year student".<br />
<br />
'''entomologist'''<br /><br />
a person who studies insects scientifically<br />
<br />
'''meatus'''<br /><br />
a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.<br />
<br />
'''sephenoid'''<br /><br />
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."<br />
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Infundibular'''<br /><br />
having the form of a funnel. The infundibular recess alluded to here is a part of the pituitary gland's structure. Cf. "chronosynclastic infundibulum" in Vonnegut's ''Sirens of Titan'', a fictional place were "all the different kinds of truths fit together."<br />
<br />
'''epiglottal'''<br /><br />
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis], the flap in the throats of [at least] mammals that keeps items swallowed with an intended destination of the stomach from entering the airway.<br />
<br />
'''Hillel'''<br /><br />
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses<br />
<br />
'''corpus callosum'''<br /><br />
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres<br />
<br />
'''laryngeally fissured'''<br /><br />
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]<br />
<br />
'''work-study'''<br /><br />
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university<br />
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'''chiffon'''<br /><br />
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric<br />
<br />
'''limned'''<br /><br />
To limn means to describe or delineate, more or less, originally used in the sense of portraiture, the sense in which it is used here, rather thn literature<br />
<br />
'''parietal'''<br /><br />
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response<br />
<br />
'''pop'''<br /><br />
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc. See also "tonic," p. 478.<br />
<br />
'''plosives'''<br /><br />
a plosive speech sound. The basic plosives in English are t, k, and p (voiceless) and d, g, and b (voiced).<br />
<br />
'''Dow'''<br /><br />
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
<br />
'''gasper'''<br /><br />
cigarette<br />
<br />
'''E.S.T.'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time<br />
<br />
'''medulla'''<br /><br />
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.<br />
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==Page 184==<br />
<br />
'''I. M. Pei'''<br /><br />
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].<br />
<br />
==Endnote 60==<br />
<br />
'''J. A. Stratton'''<br /><br />
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.<br />
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==Page 184 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''cerebral cortex'''<br /><br />
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking<br />
<br />
'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."'''<br /><br />
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].<br />
<br />
'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band'''<br /><br />
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108.<br />
<br />
'''EM'''<br /><br />
probably denoting "electromagnetic"<br />
<br />
'''centrifugal'''<br /><br />
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation<br />
<br />
'''Hundt Act'''<br /><br />
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.<br />
<br />
'''spatter's center'''<br /><br />
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.<br />
<br />
'''inelastic'''<br /><br />
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.<br />
<br />
'''3-km. cannon'''<br /><br />
The range is about 1.86 miles.<br />
<br />
'''P.E.'''<br /><br />
Physical Education<br />
<br />
'''Philology'''<br /><br />
The study of literature or language.<br />
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'''hypogonadism'''<br /><br />
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles<br />
<br />
'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies'''<br /><br />
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")<br />
<br />
'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.'''<br /><br />
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to control the flow of urine.<br />
<br />
'''The spasmodically torticollic.'''<br /><br />
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving spasms (spasmodic)<br />
<br />
'''transuranial metallurgist.'''<br /><br />
<br />
`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92. <br />
<br />
'''G.S.L.'''<br /><br />
Guaranteed Student Loan<br />
<br />
'''treillage'''<br /><br />
latticework<br />
<br />
'''interneural'''<br /><br />
between nerves<br />
<br />
'''semitic ideograms'''<br /><br />
Semitic languages actually are written using alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.<br />
<br />
'''rostral lamina'''<br /><br />
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)<br />
<br />
'''neuroform'''<br /><br />
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.<br />
<br />
'''S.O.P.'''<br /><br />
Standard Operating Procedure<br />
<br />
'''neorealist'''<br /><br />
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]<br />
<br />
'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.<br />
<br />
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.<br />
<br />
'''Deren/Hammid'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]<br />
<br />
'''Antonioni'''<br /><br />
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].<br />
<br />
'''Tarkovsky'''<br /><br />
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni, although some nominate Solaris [Солярис].<br />
<br />
'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson'''<br /><br />
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.<br />
<br />
'''hoary dramaturgy'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.<br />
<br />
'''Sir Herbert Tree'''<br /><br />
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/works/hamlet here].<br />
<br />
'''Kaelesque'''<br /><br />
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.<br />
<br />
'''De Palma, Tarantino'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 61==<br />
<br />
'''dissociative formalism'''<br /><br />
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking<br />
<br />
'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton'''<br /><br />
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.<br />
<br />
'''Beth B.'''<br /><br />
You can read about her [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].<br />
<br />
'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson'''<br /><br />
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.<br />
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==Page 185 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Brutalism, Found Drama'''<br /><br />
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].<br />
<br />
'''dissonant'''<br /><br />
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)<br />
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==Page 186==<br />
<br />
'''Baraka'''<br /><br />
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.<br />
<br />
'''piamater'''<br /><br />
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]<br />
<br />
'''sulci'''<br /><br />
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain<br />
<br />
'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus'''''<br /><br />
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT. <br />
<br />
(Well, it may not be called the "Student Union", but there is the J.A.Stratton Student Center mentioned in Endnote 60.)<br />
<br />
The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great work."<br />
<br />
'''parietooccipital'''<br /><br />
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed<br />
<br />
'''Pons and abducent'''<br /><br />
The pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve from midbrain to one of the muscles of the eye.<br />
<br />
'''basilar-stem artery'''<br /><br />
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the back part of the brain<br />
<br />
'''oblongata'''<br /><br />
the second half of the full name of the medulla<br />
<br />
'''meatus'''<br /><br />
<br />
a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.<br />
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==Page 187==<br />
<br />
'''FHC'''<br /><br />
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes<br />
<br />
'''Heathkit'''<br /><br />
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].<br />
<br />
'''10ºC'''<br /><br />
fifty degrees Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''five m.'''<br /><br />
almost 16.5 feet<br />
<br />
'''vascularly hued'''<br /><br />
colored like a blood vessel<br />
<br />
'''mercuric'''<br /><br />
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury] in the +2 oxidation state, as opposed to the +1, or mercurous, state<br />
<br />
'''wooferless'''<br /><br />
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems<br />
<br />
'''saddle-noses'''<br /><br />
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge<br />
<br />
'''atrophic'''<br /><br />
shrinking in size<br />
<br />
'''Scleredema adultorum'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin<br />
<br />
'''serodermatotic'''<br /><br />
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin<br />
<br />
'''hydrocephalic'''<br /><br />
having water on the brain<br />
<br />
'''tabescent and chachetic'''<br /><br />
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia]. <br />
<br />
'''Brag's-Diseased'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere (and not in the target of the link). This is one of DFW's most obscure references. Possibly leptospirosis, also known as Fort Bragg fever, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospirosis intended].<br />
<br />
'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic'''<br /><br />
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.<br />
<br />
'''Marin-Amat Syndrome'''<br /><br />
Marin Amat syndrome is a rarely reported synkinesis in which eyelids close upon full opening of the jaw or movement of the jaw laterally, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636018/ ophthalmologist].<br />
<br />
'''scrofulodermic'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]<br />
<br />
'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs'''<br /><br />
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top<br />
<br />
'''pityriasis rosea'''<br /><br />
a temporary skin disease marked by patches of rough, pink, oval rash. It is extraordinarily difficult to photograph successfully, although the human eye can grasp it at a glance.<br />
<br />
'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."'''<br /><br />
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].<br />
<br />
'''U.H.I.D.'''<br /><br />
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed<br />
<br />
'''probability waves for subhadronics'''<br /><br />
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].<br />
<br />
==Page 188==<br />
<br />
'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute'''<br /><br />
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."<br />
<br />
'''L.A.S. tradition'''<br /><br />
Liberal Arts and Sciences<br />
<br />
==Endnote 64==<br />
<br />
'''Samuel Johnson'''<br /><br />
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.<br />
<br />
'''Beesley'''<br /><br />
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.<br />
<br />
'''cornup3.COM'''<br /><br />
There is no such Web site.<br />
<br />
==Page 188 (cont'd)==<br />
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy'''<br /><br />
"healthy-mind" teaching<br />
<br />
'''''ad valorem'''''<br /><br />
Latin: by value<br />
<br />
'''''corpore potis'''''<br /><br />
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."<br />
<br />
'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes'''<br /><br />
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.<br />
<br />
'''aphotic to apochromatic'''<br /><br />
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means not altering the colour of the light passing through it.<br />
<br />
'''Best Boy'''<br /><br />
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]<br />
<br />
'''Cambridgeport'''<br /><br />
an area of Cambridge, Mass.<br />
<br />
==Page 189==<br />
<br />
'''leukodermatic'''<br /><br />
probably referring to leukoderma, having patches of skin that are white, missing pigment<br />
<br />
'''xanthodantic'''<br /><br />
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed<br />
<br />
'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic'''<br /><br />
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.<br />
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==Page 190==<br />
<br />
'''peronic or teratoidal'''<br /><br />
Peronic probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronie’s'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.<br />
<br />
'''phrenologically malformed'''<br /><br />
malformed in the shape of the skull<br />
<br />
'''supuratively lesioned'''<br /><br />
having lesions that ooze pus<br />
<br />
'''acervulus'''<br /><br />
a small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales (<i>Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes</i>). It has the form of a small cushion at the bottom of which short crowded conidiophores are formed. The spores escape through an opening at the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acervulus top].<br />
<br />
'''radically -ectomied'''<br /><br />
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)<br />
<br />
'''diaphoretic'''<br /><br />
perspiring<br />
<br />
'''granulomatous'''<br /><br />
characterized by inflammatory masses consisting mostly of cells called macrophages, found in many different tissues in various disease states [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granuloma granuloma]<br />
<br />
'''lazarettes and oubliettes'''<br /><br />
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, especially plague or leprosy, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.<br />
<br />
'''kyphotic and lordotic'''<br /><br />
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.<br />
<br />
'''cellulitic'''<br /><br />
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])<br />
<br />
'''fatally pulchritudinous'''<br /><br />
deadly good-looking<br />
<br />
'''Actaeonizing'''<br /><br />
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Medusoid'''<br /><br />
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]<br />
<br />
'''papuled, the macular, the albinic'''<br /><br />
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.<br />
<br />
'''''odalisques'''''<br /><br />
a concubine or slave in a harem<br />
<br />
'''ital'''<br /><br />
italics, used for emphasis<br />
<br />
'''crosiers'''<br /><br />
This reference is to the steamed crosier fronds of ostrich fern, which is occasionally eaten as a spring vegetable in Maine and in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''lager'''<br /><br />
a type of beer, medium in darkness<br />
<br />
'''vin blanc'''<br /><br />
French: white wine<br />
<br />
==Page 191==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano'''''<br /><br />
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.<br />
<br />
'''Bret Ellis'''<br /><br />
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.<br />
<br />
'''van der Rohe'''<br /><br />
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 66==<br />
<br />
'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam'''<br /><br />
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.<br />
<br />
==Page 191 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''wall- and cross-eyed'''<br /><br />
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.<br />
<br />
'''ergotic of St. Anthony'''<br /><br />
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.<br />
<br />
'''varicelliformally eruptive'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].<br />
<br />
'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi'''<br /><br />
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.<br />
<br />
'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch'''<br /><br />
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].<br />
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==Page 192==<br />
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[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]<br />
<br />
'''RCA-Victorish'''<br /><br />
The image can be seen to the right.<br />
<br />
'''snaggle-toothed'''<br /><br />
having a broken or projecting tooth<br />
<br />
'''wattled'''<br /><br />
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey<br />
<br />
'''lycanthropically'''<br /><br />
in a way suggesting a werewolf<br />
<br />
'''Tourettic'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]<br />
<br />
'''teratoid'''<br /><br />
resembling a monster<br />
<br />
'''halitotic'''<br /><br />
having bad breath<br />
<br />
'''saurian- and equine-looking'''<br /><br />
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively<br />
<br />
'''invaginate'''<br /><br />
sheathed<br />
<br />
'''Cushing's Disease'''<br /><br />
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.<br />
<br />
'''Rhinoplasty'''<br /><br />
nose job<br />
<br />
'''subdural'''<br /><br />
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull<br />
<br />
==Page 193==<br />
<br />
'''les bâtiments sanctifíes'''<br /><br />
French: the holy buildings<br />
<br />
'''''Metropolis'''''<br /><br />
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang<br />
<br />
=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=<br />
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==Page 193==<br />
<br />
'''VA'''<br /><br />
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs<br />
<br />
==Page 194==<br />
<br />
'''solvent'''<br /><br />
i.e., financially solvent<br />
<br />
'''methadone'''<br /><br />
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"<br />
<br />
'''methedrine'''<br /><br />
the brand name of methamphetamine<br />
<br />
'''New Bedford'''<br /><br />
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston<br />
<br />
==Page 195==<br />
<br />
''''Vette'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]<br />
<br />
'''ornithology'''<br /><br />
the study of birds<br />
<br />
'''aminating'''<br /><br />
introducing an amino acid into something<br />
<br />
'''shiv'''<br /><br />
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing<br />
<br />
==Page 196==<br />
<br />
'''LTIs'''<br /><br />
Long-Term Illnesses<br />
<br />
==Endnote 67==<br />
<br />
'''The Unexamined Life tavern'''<br /><br />
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.<br />
<br />
'''parasolled'''<br /><br />
having an umbrella on or in it<br />
<br />
'''Mudslides'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]<br />
<br />
''''objay darts''''<br /><br />
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"<br />
<br />
'''catatonic'''<br /><br />
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)<br />
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==Page 197==<br />
<br />
'''mansard'''<br /><br />
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Clorets'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]<br />
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==Page 181==<br />
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'''Madame Psychosis'''<br /><br />
not just a byname for DMZ, but also a radio show host, and perhaps a punning allusion to metempsychosis<br />
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==Page 182==<br />
<br />
'''apotheosizing'''<br /><br />
apotheosis is the glorifying of someone to a divine level<br />
<br />
'''patricidal'''<br /><br />
having a tendency to kill one's father<br />
<br />
'''literally sophomoric'''<br /><br />
i.e. as in "immature", not "like a second-year student".<br />
<br />
'''entomologist'''<br /><br />
a person who studies insects scientifically<br />
<br />
'''meatus'''<br /><br />
a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.<br />
<br />
'''sephenoid'''<br /><br />
a misspelling for [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sphenoid sphenoid], "a winged bone at the base of the cranium."<br />
''Merriam-Webster Online. 25 May 2009''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Infundibular'''<br /><br />
having the form of a funnel. The infundibular recess alluded to here is a part of the pituitary gland's structure. Cf. "chronosynclastic infundibulum" in Vonnegut's ''Sirens of Titan'', a fictional place were "all the different kinds of truths fit together."<br />
<br />
'''epiglottal'''<br /><br />
having to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiglottis epiglottis], the flap in the throats of [at least] mammals that keeps items swallowed with an intended destination of the stomach from entering the airway.<br />
<br />
'''Hillel'''<br /><br />
a nationwide (worldwide?) Jewish student union present on several campuses<br />
<br />
'''corpus callosum'''<br /><br />
the part of the brain connecting the left and right hemispheres<br />
<br />
'''laryngeally fissured'''<br /><br />
having ridges like the human [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larynx larynx]<br />
<br />
'''work-study'''<br /><br />
receiving funding from the university in exchange for work rendered to the university<br />
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==Page 183==<br />
<br />
'''chiffon'''<br /><br />
a lightweight, balanced, plain-woven fabric<br />
<br />
'''limned'''<br /><br />
To limn means to describe or delineate, more or less, originally used in the sense of portraiture, the sense in which it is used here, rather thn literature<br />
<br />
'''parietal'''<br /><br />
referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_lobe parietal lobe] of the brain, responsible for sensory memory and response<br />
<br />
'''pop'''<br /><br />
Midwesterners in the U.S. use this word to denote what others call "soda," i.e., Coca-Cola, 7-Up, etc. See also "tonic," p. 478.<br />
<br />
'''Dow'''<br /><br />
a pun on the Chinese word ''tao,'' ("the way") and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average]<br />
<br />
'''gasper'''<br /><br />
cigarette<br />
<br />
'''E.S.T.'''<br /><br />
Eastern Standard Time<br />
<br />
'''medulla'''<br /><br />
literally that part of the brain responsible for autonomic functions like heartbeat, organ activity, etc.<br />
<br />
==Page 184==<br />
<br />
'''I. M. Pei'''<br /><br />
Ieoh Ming Pei (born 1917) is a Chinese-born American architect who designed, among other famous buildings, MIT's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Building_%28MIT%29 Green Building].<br />
<br />
==Endnote 60==<br />
<br />
'''J. A. Stratton'''<br /><br />
Julius Adams Stratton (1901-1994) was an American educator and president of MIT between 1959 and 1965.<br />
<br />
==Page 184 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''cerebral cortex'''<br /><br />
that part of the brain responsible for higher-order thinking<br />
<br />
'''"...what she's said for three years of midnights..."'''<br /><br />
Up until 'Look at that fucker ''Dance,''' the rest of her introduction is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=9 Genesis 1].<br />
<br />
'''Largest Whole Prime On The FM Band'''<br /><br />
109 is a prime number, i.e., divisible only by itself and by 1. Actually the highest number you can get on FM is 108.<br />
<br />
'''EM'''<br /><br />
probably denoting "electromagnetic"<br />
<br />
'''centrifugal'''<br /><br />
that force in a spinning object that tends to push away objects from the angle of rotation<br />
<br />
'''Hundt Act'''<br /><br />
Reed E. Hundt (born 1948) was chairman of the Federal Communications Committee in 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. Wallace may be riffing on that, as it appears there was no equivalent legislation in 1966.<br />
<br />
'''spatter's center'''<br /><br />
The spatter referred to here is probably the small amount of FM bands that can be sent out.<br />
<br />
'''inelastic'''<br /><br />
When used with regard to demand, this term means tending not to change.<br />
<br />
'''3-km. cannon'''<br /><br />
The range is about 1.86 miles.<br />
<br />
'''P.E.'''<br /><br />
Physical Education<br />
<br />
'''Philology'''<br /><br />
The study of literature or language.<br />
<br />
==Page 185==<br />
<br />
'''hypogonadism'''<br /><br />
lack of function of the ovaries or testicles<br />
<br />
'''Nodular leprosy with leonine facies'''<br /><br />
a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy leprosy] that generates lesions made of nodes and that produces lion-like facial expressions (i.e., "leonine facies")<br />
<br />
'''The acromegalic and hyperkeratosistic. The enuretic.'''<br /><br />
Arcomegaly is a disorder of the pituitary gland whereby it produces too much human growth hormone, resulting in giantism. Hyperkeratosistic means that one is suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperkeratosis hyperkeratosis]. Enuresis is the inability to control the flow of urine.<br />
<br />
'''The spasmodically torticollic.'''<br /><br />
having a head tilted to one side (torticollis) involving spasms (spasmodic)<br />
<br />
'''transuranial metallurgist.'''<br /><br />
<br />
`transuranial' refers to the elements with an atomic number greater than 92. <br />
<br />
'''G.S.L.'''<br /><br />
Guaranteed Student Loan<br />
<br />
'''treillage'''<br /><br />
latticework<br />
<br />
'''interneural'''<br /><br />
between nerves<br />
<br />
'''semitic ideograms'''<br /><br />
Semitic languages actually are written using alphabets, where a symbol denotes a phoneme, rather than in ideograms, like Chinese and Korean are. The oldest alphabet is the Phoenician, which was Semitic.<br />
<br />
'''rostral lamina'''<br /><br />
in biology, a beaklike or snoutlike (rostral) layer of tissue (lamina)<br />
<br />
'''neuroform'''<br /><br />
Neuroform is actually the brand-name of a type of stent.<br />
<br />
'''S.O.P.'''<br /><br />
Standard Operating Procedure<br />
<br />
'''neorealist'''<br /><br />
adhering to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism Italian neorealism]<br />
<br />
'''Peterson/Broughton and Dali/Buñuel'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677403/ Sidney Peterson] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112687/ James Broughton] collaborated on [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038855/ The Potted Psalm] (1946), an experimental film.<br />
<br />
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (1904-1989) and Luis Buñuel Portolés (1900-1983) were both Spanish artists. They collaborated on ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/ Un chien andalou]'' (''An Andalusian Dog'', 1929), another experimental film.<br />
<br />
'''Deren/Hammid'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220305/ Maya Deren] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/ Alexander Hammid] codirected [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036154/ Meshes of the Afternoon]<br />
<br />
'''Antonioni'''<br /><br />
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) was an Italian filmmaker probably most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/ Blowup].<br />
<br />
'''Tarkovsky'''<br /><br />
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker, most famous for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176227/ Voyage in Time], made with Antonioni, although some nominate Solaris [Солярис].<br />
<br />
'''Sometimes Ozu and Bresson'''<br /><br />
Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963) was a Japanese filmmaker. Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was a French filmmaker.<br />
<br />
'''hoary dramaturgy'''<br /><br />
According to Wikipedia, dramaturgy is "the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage." To call it "hoary" would be to imply it's old.<br />
<br />
'''Sir Herbert Tree'''<br /><br />
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917) was a British actor and manager. You can hear his performances of ''Hamlet'' [http://www.bl.uk/works/hamlet here].<br />
<br />
'''Kaelesque'''<br /><br />
In the style of Pauline Kael (1919-2001), an American film critic for ''New Yorker'' magazine.<br />
<br />
'''De Palma, Tarantino'''<br /><br />
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000361/ Brian De Palma] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/ Quentin Tarantino]<br />
<br />
==Endnote 61==<br />
<br />
'''dissociative formalism'''<br /><br />
presumably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalist_film_theory formalism] that focuses too much on form and not enough on character and other aspects of filmmaking<br />
<br />
'''Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton'''<br /><br />
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) and Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) were American avant-garde filmmakers.<br />
<br />
'''Beth B.'''<br /><br />
You can read about her [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044579/ here].<br />
<br />
'''the Snow brothers, Vigdis Simpson'''<br /><br />
One of the Snow brothers would have to be Michael Snow (born 1929), a Canadian-American filmmaker, principally known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_%281966_film%29 Wavelength]. Vigdis Simpson seems created.<br />
<br />
==Page 185 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''Brutalism, Found Drama'''<br /><br />
Brutalism may refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism brutalist architecture]. Found Drama is the cinematic extension of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art Found Art].<br />
<br />
'''dissonant'''<br /><br />
inharmonious with other things (here, aspects of Madame Psychosis's taste)<br />
<br />
==Page 186==<br />
<br />
'''Baraka'''<br /><br />
Imamu Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones, 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright, author, and political activist.<br />
<br />
'''piamater'''<br /><br />
actually two words: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_mater Pia mater]<br />
<br />
'''sulci'''<br /><br />
plural of "sulcus," a furrow or groove, particularly between sections of the brain<br />
<br />
'''A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's ''summum opus'''''<br /><br />
A.Y. "Vector Field" Rickey, as first referenced back in Endnote 3 as the architect of the cardioid E.T.A. buildings. Possibly named after [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], a prominent mathematician. It is notable that there is, in fact, no Student Union building at MIT. <br />
<br />
(Well, it may not be called the "Student Union", but there is the J.A.Stratton Student Center mentioned in Endnote 60.)<br />
<br />
The ''summum opus'' would be the "greatest work" while a ''magnum opus'' would be a "great work."<br />
<br />
'''parietooccipital'''<br /><br />
referring to both the parietal lobe of the brain, as well as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_lobe occipital] lobe, which is where vision is processed<br />
<br />
'''Pons and abducent'''<br /><br />
The pons is a structure on the brain stem, while the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducent_nerve abducens nerve] is a nerve from midbrain to one of the muscles of the eye.<br />
<br />
'''basilar-stem artery'''<br /><br />
a stem of an artery that carries blood to the back part of the brain<br />
<br />
'''oblongata'''<br /><br />
the second half of the full name of the medulla<br />
<br />
'''meatus'''<br /><br />
<br />
a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.<br />
<br />
==Page 187==<br />
<br />
'''FHC'''<br /><br />
acronym for "fluorohydrocarbon," this is a type of [http://www.polymerplastics.com/fluoro_overview.shtml fluroplastic], known to give off poisonous fumes<br />
<br />
'''Heathkit'''<br /><br />
The company's Web site is [http://www.heathkit-museum.com/ here].<br />
<br />
'''10ºC'''<br /><br />
fifty degrees Fahrenheit<br />
<br />
'''five m.'''<br /><br />
almost 16.5 feet<br />
<br />
'''vascularly hued'''<br /><br />
colored like a blood vessel<br />
<br />
'''mercuric'''<br /><br />
employing the element [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) mercury] in the +2 oxidation state, as opposed to the +1, or mercurous, state<br />
<br />
'''wooferless'''<br /><br />
lacking the larger speaker (i.e., the "woofer") found in multi-speaker systems<br />
<br />
'''saddle-noses'''<br /><br />
noses having a collapsed nasal bridge<br />
<br />
'''atrophic'''<br /><br />
shrinking in size<br />
<br />
'''Scleredema adultorum'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic385.htm disease] characterized by non-pitting induration of the skin<br />
<br />
'''serodermatotic'''<br /><br />
suffering from serodermatosis, a skin disease with serous effusion into the skin<br />
<br />
'''hydrocephalic'''<br /><br />
having water on the brain<br />
<br />
'''tabescent and chachetic'''<br /><br />
Tabescent refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabes tabes dorsalis], and chachetic (misspelled) apparently refers to a person with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia cachexia]. <br />
<br />
'''Brag's-Diseased'''<br /><br />
This would seem to be a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioma glioma], though it is mentioned almost nowhere (and not in the target of the link). This is one of DFW's most obscure references. Possibly leptospirosis, also known as Fort Bragg fever, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospirosis intended].<br />
<br />
'''carbuncular or steatocryptotic'''<br /><br />
Carbuncular means "pimply," while steatocryptotic refers to a person suffering from steatocryptosis, which is derangement of the sebaceous glands.<br />
<br />
'''Marin-Amat Syndrome'''<br /><br />
Marin Amat syndrome is a rarely reported synkinesis in which eyelids close upon full opening of the jaw or movement of the jaw laterally, named for Manuel Marin Amat, an early 20th century Spanish [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636018/ ophthalmologist].<br />
<br />
'''scrofulodermic'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm cutaneous tuberculosis]<br />
<br />
'''Bell-shaped steatopygiacs'''<br /><br />
A steatopygiac is a person suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia steatopygia]; if you're bell-shaped, it just means the fat is closer to the bottom than the top<br />
<br />
'''pityriasis rosea'''<br /><br />
a temporary skin disease marked by patches of rough, pink, oval rash. It is extraordinarily difficult to photograph successfully, although the human eye can grasp it at a glance.<br />
<br />
'''"Blessed are the poor in body, for they."'''<br /><br />
This is not one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitude Beatitudes].<br />
<br />
'''U.H.I.D.'''<br /><br />
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed<br />
<br />
'''probability waves for subhadronics'''<br /><br />
Probability waves are a concept in quantum physics that expresses the probability that "a particle or particles in a particular state will be measured to have a given position and momentum" (Wikipedia). Subhadronic refers to a particle smaller than a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron hadron].<br />
<br />
==Page 188==<br />
<br />
'''Radcliffe's Bunting Institute'''<br /><br />
Radcliffe is the women's college at Harvard University. According to the Harvard [http://www.harvard.edu/ Web site], "The Bunting Institute is a mutidisciplinary center for women scholars, writers, artists, and activists of demonstrated achievement and promise. Each year, approximately 40 women pursue projects that make significant contributions to their fields, working in a community that fosters interdisciplinary discourse, and creative and intellectual leadership. Some describe their experience as "the Bunting transformation."<br />
<br />
'''L.A.S. tradition'''<br /><br />
Liberal Arts and Sciences<br />
<br />
==Endnote 64==<br />
<br />
'''Samuel Johnson'''<br /><br />
Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1709-1784), was a British poet, essayist, novelist, literary critic, and lexicographer.<br />
<br />
'''Beesley'''<br /><br />
Patricia Beesley, an early 20th century American educator who did author the book named.<br />
<br />
'''cornup3.COM'''<br /><br />
There is no such Web site.<br />
<br />
==Page 188 (cont'd)==<br />
'''''mens-sana'' pedagogy'''<br /><br />
"healthy-mind" teaching<br />
<br />
'''''ad valorem'''''<br /><br />
Latin: by value<br />
<br />
'''''corpore potis'''''<br /><br />
Latin: able of body. The second part of the play on "Mens sana in corpore sano."<br />
<br />
'''Thorp's Trigonometry of Cubes'''<br /><br />
Edward Oakley Thorp (born 1932) is an American mathematician, but he seems not to have created a "trigonometry of cubes," which would be, frankly, impossible.<br />
<br />
'''aphotic to apochromatic'''<br /><br />
Aphotic means without light, while apochromatic means not altering the colour of the light passing through it.<br />
<br />
'''Best Boy'''<br /><br />
a member of a film crew, assistant to either the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_%28motion_picture_industry%29 gaffer] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_grip key grip]<br />
<br />
'''Cambridgeport'''<br /><br />
an area of Cambridge, Mass.<br />
<br />
==Page 189==<br />
<br />
'''leukodermatic'''<br /><br />
probably referring to leukoderma, having patches of skin that are white, missing pigment<br />
<br />
'''xanthodantic'''<br /><br />
misspelling of xanthodontic, which means yellow-toothed<br />
<br />
'''basilisk-breathed and pyorrheic'''<br /><br />
A basilisk is a type of dragon, and pyorrhea is the condition of having gum disease.<br />
<br />
==Page 190==<br />
<br />
'''peronic or teratoidal'''<br /><br />
Peronic probably means having a bent penis (from ''Peyronie’s'' disease), while teratoidal means malformed.<br />
<br />
'''phrenologically malformed'''<br /><br />
malformed in the shape of the skull<br />
<br />
'''supuratively lesioned'''<br /><br />
having lesions that ooze pus<br />
<br />
'''acervulus'''<br /><br />
a small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales (<i>Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes</i>). It has the form of a small cushion at the bottom of which short crowded conidiophores are formed. The spores escape through an opening at the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acervulus top].<br />
<br />
'''radically -ectomied'''<br /><br />
-having to do with body-part removal (think radical mastectomy)<br />
<br />
'''diaphoretic'''<br /><br />
perspiring<br />
<br />
'''granulomatous'''<br /><br />
characterized by inflammatory masses consisting mostly of cells called macrophages, found in many different tissues in various disease states [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granuloma granuloma]<br />
<br />
'''lazarettes and oubliettes'''<br /><br />
A lazarette is a hospital that treats infectious diseases, especially plague or leprosy, while an oubliette is a dungeon accessible only by trapdoor.<br />
<br />
'''kyphotic and lordotic'''<br /><br />
Kyphotic means having abnormal rear curvature of the spine (i.e., hunchbacked), while lordotic having abnormal forward curvature of the spine.<br />
<br />
'''cellulitic'''<br /><br />
Having cellulite, i.e., deposits of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue (as in the thighs, hips, and buttocks) that give a puckered and dimpled appearance to the skin surface ([http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellulite Merriam-Webster])<br />
<br />
'''fatally pulchritudinous'''<br /><br />
deadly good-looking<br />
<br />
'''Actaeonizing'''<br /><br />
Reference to the story of Actaeon - "In the version that was offered by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus (Hymn v), which has become the standard setting, Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Actaeon was punished by Artemis: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately was changed into a stag. His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him." ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon Wikipedia])<br />
<br />
'''Medusoid'''<br /><br />
looking like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon gorgon]<br />
<br />
'''papuled, the macular, the albinic'''<br /><br />
Papules are inflammatory elevations of the skin. Macular means having opaque spots on the cornea. Albinic is having no melanin.<br />
<br />
'''''odalisques'''''<br /><br />
a concubine or slave in a harem<br />
<br />
'''ital'''<br /><br />
italics, used for emphasis<br />
<br />
'''crosiers'''<br /><br />
This reference is to the steamed crosier fronds of ostrich fern, which is occasionally eaten as a spring vegetable in Maine and in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead_fern Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
'''lager'''<br /><br />
a type of beer, medium in darkness<br />
<br />
'''vin blanc'''<br /><br />
French: white wine<br />
<br />
==Page 191==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.P.A.U.]]<br />
<br />
'''''Good Morning, Midnight'' and ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' and ''Giovanni's Room'' and ''Under the Volcano'''''<br /><br />
''Good Morning, Midnight'' is a novel by Jean Rhys (1890-1979), born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, a Caribbean novelist, on the topic of a woman forced to confront her own loneliness and despair. ''Maggie: A Girl of the Streets'' is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), an American novelist, on the topic of a child prostitute. ''Giovanni's Room'' by African-American expatriate author James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is a novel on the topic of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), a British writer, on the topic of alcoholism.<br />
<br />
'''Bret Ellis'''<br /><br />
Bret Easton Ellis (born 1965) is an American novelist probably best known for ''Less Than Zero'' (1985), about a drug addict who turns to prostitution, and ''American Psycho'' (1991), about a serial killer.<br />
<br />
'''van der Rohe'''<br /><br />
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was a German-born American architect.<br />
<br />
==Endnote 66==<br />
<br />
'''R.E.M. and Pearl Jam'''<br /><br />
R.E.M.'s lead singer, Michael Stipe, was famous for his unintelligible lyrics until around 1987's ''Document''. Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, is as cryptic now as he was fifteen years ago, when they released their first record.<br />
<br />
==Page 191 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''wall- and cross-eyed'''<br /><br />
To be wall-eyed is to suffer from exotropia, which is a form of ocular paralysis in which one or both eyes turn outward.<br />
<br />
'''ergotic of St. Anthony'''<br /><br />
An old name for ergot poisoning is "St. Anthony's fire," which is ergot poisoning. However, given the context, Wallace may be referring here to shingles.<br />
<br />
'''varicelliformally eruptive'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema_herpeticum eczema due to herpes].<br />
<br />
'''sarcoma'd of Kaposi'''<br /><br />
Karposi's sarcoma is a usually benign skin cancer common in elderly Mediterranean men that has become the most easily identifiable visible symptom of AIDS.<br />
<br />
'''M. Hamilton as Oz's West Witch'''<br /><br />
Referring to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/ The Wizard of Oz], the Wicked Witch of the West (and East) was played by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/ Margaret Hamilton].<br />
<br />
==Page 192==<br />
<br />
[[Image:RCA.jpg|right]]<br />
<br />
'''RCA-Victorish'''<br /><br />
The image can be seen to the right.<br />
<br />
'''snaggle-toothed'''<br /><br />
having a broken or projecting tooth<br />
<br />
'''wattled'''<br /><br />
having flesh hanging from one's chin, like a turkey<br />
<br />
'''lycanthropically'''<br /><br />
in a way suggesting a werewolf<br />
<br />
'''Tourettic'''<br /><br />
suffering from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette%27s_Syndrome Tourette's syndrome]<br />
<br />
'''teratoid'''<br /><br />
resembling a monster<br />
<br />
'''halitotic'''<br /><br />
having bad breath<br />
<br />
'''saurian- and equine-looking'''<br /><br />
looking like a lizard or horse, respectively<br />
<br />
'''invaginate'''<br /><br />
sheathed<br />
<br />
'''Cushing's Disease'''<br /><br />
Named for Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), an American neurologist, this disease is an endocrine disorder resulting in rapid weight gain, sweating, thinning of skin, and other negative side effects.<br />
<br />
'''Rhinoplasty'''<br /><br />
nose job<br />
<br />
'''subdural'''<br /><br />
below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura_mater dura mater] in the skull<br />
<br />
==Page 193==<br />
<br />
'''les bâtiments sanctifíes'''<br /><br />
French: the holy buildings<br />
<br />
'''''Metropolis'''''<br /><br />
a 1927 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/ film] directed by Fritz Lang<br />
<br />
=Layout of the Enfield Marine Public Health Hospital complex=<br />
<br />
==Page 193==<br />
<br />
'''VA'''<br /><br />
the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs<br />
<br />
==Page 194==<br />
<br />
'''solvent'''<br /><br />
i.e., financially solvent<br />
<br />
'''methadone'''<br /><br />
a drug used to wean heroin addicts off that drug and onto methadone, which is equally addictive but produces no "high"<br />
<br />
'''methedrine'''<br /><br />
the brand name of methamphetamine<br />
<br />
'''New Bedford'''<br /><br />
a city of Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston<br />
<br />
==Page 195==<br />
<br />
''''Vette'''<br /><br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette Chevrolet Corvette]<br />
<br />
'''ornithology'''<br /><br />
the study of birds<br />
<br />
'''aminating'''<br /><br />
introducing an amino acid into something<br />
<br />
'''shiv'''<br /><br />
an improvised prison weapon used for stabbing<br />
<br />
==Page 196==<br />
<br />
'''LTIs'''<br /><br />
Long-Term Illnesses<br />
<br />
==Endnote 67==<br />
<br />
'''The Unexamined Life tavern'''<br /><br />
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living in ''Apology''.<br />
<br />
'''parasolled'''<br /><br />
having an umbrella on or in it<br />
<br />
'''Mudslides'''<br /><br />
a type of [http://drinkoftheweek.com/archive/m/mudslide.htm drink]<br />
<br />
''''objay darts''''<br /><br />
a bastardized form of ''objets d'arts'', French for "objects of art"<br />
<br />
'''catatonic'''<br /><br />
relating to catatonia, a neurogenic motor immobility arising from a disturbed mental state (resulting in little or no movement in the sufferer)<br />
<br />
==Page 197==<br />
<br />
'''mansard'''<br /><br />
This is "a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
[[Image:mansard.png|'Mansard Roof| thumbnail|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Clorets'''<br /><br />
a brand name of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorets popular gum]<br />
<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
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'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''Shellac'''<br /><br />
a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.<br />
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'''crewed'''<br /><br />
worked in a gang<br />
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'''boosting'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
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'''onnings'''<br /><br />
awnings<br />
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'''Patty citizen type'''<br /><br />
slang for a "Patrician" type &#151; respectable citizen, person of means, &c.<br />
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'''elemonade'''<br /><br />
eliminate<br />
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'''map'''<br /><br />
face<br />
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'''slope'''<br /><br />
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent<br />
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'''insentive not to eat no cheese'''<br /><br />
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement<br />
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'''pernt'''<br /><br />
point<br />
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'''Copley'''<br /><br />
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston<br />
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'''personnel works'''<br /><br />
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs<br />
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'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
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'''aile'''<br /><br />
aisle<br />
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'''Bow&Arrow'''<br /><br />
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.<br />
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'''foran'''<br /><br />
foreign<br />
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'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/<br />
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'''trancemission'''<br /><br />
transmission<br />
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'''dopesick'''<br /><br />
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin<br />
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'''old hose'''<br /><br />
old whores<br />
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'''supperst'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
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'''petaled ass'''<br /><br />
(peddled ass) prostituted himself<br />
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'''roll'''<br /><br />
rob<br />
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'''legless on shots alone'''<br /><br />
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well<br />
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'''wet work'''<br /><br />
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]<br />
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'''pernts'''<br /><br />
points<br />
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'''stifing'''<br /><br />
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.<br />
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'''feather snake'''<br /><br />
feather boa - a feathered scarf<br />
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'''eat cheese'''<br /><br />
be a rat<br />
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'''pissboys'''<br /><br />
people who administer urine drug tests<br />
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'''glass pipes'''<br /><br />
for smoking crack<br />
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'''Crown Royal in purple bags'''<br /><br />
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag<br />
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'''Redi Rok crack'''<br /><br />
redi-rock crack: a combination of crack 'n heroin that can be smoked. Likely named after Redi-Rock Retaining Walls.<br />
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'''rickytick'''<br /><br />
as soon as possible; quickly. Often seen following the word 'most' and is commonly heard by US Marines.<br />
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'''p-dope'''<br /><br />
heavily cut heroin<br />
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'''bunk'''<br /><br />
poor quality, cut, or fake <br />
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'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
Mannitol<br />: a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. As a sweetener it is used in diabetic food as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines. As a medication, it is used to decrease pressure in the eyes, as in glaucoma, and to lower increased intracranial pressure. Medically, it is given by injection.<br />
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'''kwai9'''<br /><br />
quinine<br />: a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria<br />
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'''bundles'''<br /><br />
heroin<br />
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'''stoal'''<br /><br />
stole<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
have a fixation on; be addicted to.<br />
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'''super statiously'''<br /><br />
superstitiously<br />
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'''Hotshots'''<br /><br />
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected<br />
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'''booted'''<br /><br />
injected<br />
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'''thearized'''<br /><br />
theorized<br />
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'''true straight eating cheese'''<br /><br />
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'''Kicking the Bird'''<br /><br />
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)<br />
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'''three squars'''<br /><br />
three squares; i.e. three square meals<br />
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'''methadoan'''<br /><br />
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction<br />
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'''pith helmet'''<br /><br />
a safari helmet<br />
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'''Phoenician'''<br /><br />
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]<br />
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'''Advent'''<br /><br />
the four Sundays preceding Christmas<br />
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=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
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'''Walpole'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city<br />
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'''galoot'''<br /><br />
a clumsy or oafish person (often as a term of abuse).<br />
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'''mythopoeia'''<br /><br />
the creating of a myth<br />
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'''feldspar'''<br /><br />
a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals that make up about 41% of the Earth's continental crust by weight. <br />
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'''Yushityu'''<br /><br />
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"<br />
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=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
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'''blood-alcohol of .3+'''<br /><br />
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered<br />
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'''bricklayer'''<br /><br />
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of <i>Readers Digest</i>. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.<br />
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'''900 kg'''<br /><br />
fifteen pounds short of a ton<br />
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'''75 kg'''<br /><br />
about 165.3 pounds<br />
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'''30 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 66 pounds<br />
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=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
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'''21 February''' <br /><br />
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.<br />
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'''Viz.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"<br />
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'''Mirandized'''<br /><br />
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)<br />
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'''probity'''<br /><br />
integrity<br />
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'''Jarvik IX'''<br /><br />
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being<br /><br />
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'''restenosis'''<br /><br />
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis<br />
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'''Etienne Aigner'''<br /><br />
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer<br />
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'''shunt'''<br /><br />
a shunt is a hole or a small passage which moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another.<br />
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'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School<br />
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=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=<br />
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'''séparatisteur'''<br /><br />
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.<br />
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'''québecois'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of ''québécois''.<br />
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'''''Les Fils de Montcalm'''''<br /><br />
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.<br />
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'''homuncular'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being<br />
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'''straw boater'''<br /><br />
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw<br />
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'''tumescent'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Freddie-Mac'''<br /><br />
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]<br />
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'''trivalent'''<br /><br />
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]<br />
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'''countenanced'''<br /><br />
admit as acceptable or possible.<br />
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'''fugue'''<br /><br />
a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.<br />
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'''vectored'''<br /><br />
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).<br />
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'''arational'''<br /><br />
the difference between irrational and arational is that irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical while arational is (chiefly|philosophy) not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason. <br />
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'''gumlet'''<br /><br />
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].<br />
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'''furtive'''<br /><br />
shifty or sneaky<br />
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'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria'''''<br /><br />
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."<br />
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'''verisimilitude'''<br /><br />
the appearance of being true or real.<br />
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'''snafus'''<br /><br />
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"<br />
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'''sumptuous'''<br /><br />
splendid and expensive-looking.<br />
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'''ostentatious'''<br /><br />
pretentious or showy<br />
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'''verve'''<br /><br />
enthusiasm or vigor<br />
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'''precipitant'''<br /><br />
sudden, hasty, or rash<br />
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'''micro-econometrist'''<br /><br />
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.<br />
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'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.<br />
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'''retrograde'''<br /><br />
moving backward<br />
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'''electric zirconium jewelry'''<br /><br />
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.<br />
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'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers'''<br /><br />
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat<br />
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'''and c.'''<br /><br />
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.<br />
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'''panagoraphobia'''<br /><br />
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)<br />
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=☽ - Urine Testing=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''agnate'''<br /><br />
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)<br />
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'''widow's peak'''<br /><br />
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back<br />
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'''spectrometer'''<br /><br />
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum<br />
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'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA'''<br /><br />
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').<br />
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'''cc'''<br /><br />
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters<br />
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'''wienerman'''<br /><br />
hot-dog salesman<br />
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'''Yarmouth sail'''<br /><br />
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]<br />
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'''Pepperdine'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.<br />
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'''derrick'''<br /><br />
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''fiat'''<br /><br />
a formal authorization or proposition; a decree. (OED)<br />
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'''thoracic'''<br /><br />
relating to the thorax. (OED)<br />
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'''foot-treadle'''<br /><br />
a lever worked by foot<br />
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'''f/x'''<br /><br />
special effects in film<br />
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'''Bolex'''<br /><br />
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]<br />
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'''undulating'''<br /><br />
moving with a wave-like motion<br />
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'''petrochemical'''<br /><br />
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas<br />
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'''spronging'''<br /><br />
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"<br />
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'''Eschatonic'''<br /><br />
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.<br />
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'''''pünch'''''<br /><br />
There is no such German word.<br />
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'''serpentine'''<br /><br />
snake-like<br />
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'''Standford-Bïnet'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).<br />
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'''dilettantish'''<br /><br />
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.<br />
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'''dento-dermal'''<br /><br />
by the skin of his teeth<br />
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'''brine'''<br /><br />
salt water<br />
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'''emulsion'''<br /><br />
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.<br />
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'''differentials'''<br /><br />
first derivatives in calculus<br />
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'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile'''<br /><br />
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!<br />
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').<br />
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'''high-water'''<br /><br />
pants hemmed too high<br />
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'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
1. bursting forth.<br />
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue. <br />
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'''gratis'''<br /><br />
free of charge<br />
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'''''ex cathedra'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals<br />
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'''éclat'''<br /><br />
great brilliance or conspicuous success<br />
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'''dewy-eyed'''<br /><br />
exhibiting childlike simplicity<br />
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'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE'''''<br /><br />
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War<br />
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'''Feenian'''<br /><br />
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic<br />
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'''Brighton'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston<br />
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'''natal'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a person's birth<br />
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'''Brutus'''<br /><br />
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).<br />
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'''''vade mecum'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
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'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''Shellac'''<br /><br />
a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.<br />
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'''crewed'''<br /><br />
worked in a gang<br />
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'''boosting'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''onnings'''<br /><br />
awnings<br />
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'''Patty citizen type'''<br /><br />
slang for a "Patrician" type &#151; respectable citizen, person of means, &c.<br />
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'''elemonade'''<br /><br />
eliminate<br />
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'''map'''<br /><br />
face<br />
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'''slope'''<br /><br />
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent<br />
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'''insentive not to eat no cheese'''<br /><br />
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement<br />
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'''pernt'''<br /><br />
point<br />
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'''Copley'''<br /><br />
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston<br />
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'''personnel works'''<br /><br />
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs<br />
<br />
'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
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'''aile'''<br /><br />
aisle<br />
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'''Bow&Arrow'''<br /><br />
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.<br />
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'''foran'''<br /><br />
foreign<br />
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'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/<br />
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'''trancemission'''<br /><br />
transmission<br />
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'''dopesick'''<br /><br />
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin<br />
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'''old hose'''<br /><br />
old whores<br />
<br />
'''supperst'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
<br />
'''petaled ass'''<br /><br />
(peddled ass) prostituted himself<br />
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'''roll'''<br /><br />
rob<br />
<br />
'''legless on shots alone'''<br /><br />
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well<br />
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'''wet work'''<br /><br />
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]<br />
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'''pernts'''<br /><br />
points<br />
<br />
'''stifing'''<br /><br />
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.<br />
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'''feather snake'''<br /><br />
feather boa - a feathered scarf<br />
<br />
'''eat cheese'''<br /><br />
be a rat<br />
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'''pissboys'''<br /><br />
people who administer urine drug tests<br />
<br />
'''glass pipes'''<br /><br />
for smoking crack<br />
<br />
'''Crown Royal in purple bags'''<br /><br />
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag<br />
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'''Redi Rok crack'''<br /><br />
redi-rock crack: a combination of crack 'n heroin that can be smoked. Likely named after Redi-Rock Retaining Walls.<br />
<br />
'''rickytick'''<br /><br />
as soon as possible; quickly. Often seen following the word 'most' and is commonly heard by US Marines.<br />
<br />
'''p-dope'''<br /><br />
heavily cut heroin<br />
<br />
'''bunk'''<br /><br />
poor quality, cut, or fake <br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
Mannitol<br />: a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. As a sweetener it is used in diabetic food as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines. As a medication, it is used to decrease pressure in the eyes, as in glaucoma, and to lower increased intracranial pressure. Medically, it is given by injection.<br />
<br />
'''kwai9'''<br /><br />
quinine<br />: a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria<br />
<br />
'''bundles'''<br /><br />
heroin<br />
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<br />
'''stoal'''<br /><br />
stole<br />
<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
have a fixation on; be addicted to.<br />
<br />
'''super statiously'''<br /><br />
superstitiously<br />
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<br />
'''Hotshots'''<br /><br />
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected<br />
<br />
'''booted'''<br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''thearized'''<br /><br />
theorized<br />
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<br />
'''true straight eating cheese'''<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kicking the Bird'''<br /><br />
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)<br />
<br />
'''three squars'''<br /><br />
three squares; i.e. three square meals<br />
<br />
'''methadoan'''<br /><br />
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction<br />
<br />
=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=<br />
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==Page 136==<br />
'''pith helmet'''<br /><br />
a safari helmet<br />
<br />
'''Phoenician'''<br /><br />
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]<br />
<br />
==Page 137==<br />
<br />
'''Advent'''<br /><br />
the four Sundays preceding Christmas<br />
<br />
=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=<br />
<br />
==Page 137==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
<br />
'''Walpole'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city<br />
<br />
==Page 138==<br />
'''galoot'''<br /><br />
a clumsy or oafish person (often as a term of abuse).<br />
<br />
'''mythopoeia'''<br /><br />
the creating of a myth<br />
<br />
'''feldspar'''<br /><br />
a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals that make up about 41% of the Earth's continental crust by weight. <br />
<br />
'''Yushityu'''<br /><br />
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"<br />
<br />
=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=<br />
<br />
==Page 138==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
<br />
==Page 139==<br />
<br />
'''blood-alcohol of .3+'''<br /><br />
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered<br />
<br />
'''bricklayer'''<br /><br />
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of <i>Readers Digest</i>. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.<br />
<br />
'''900 kg'''<br /><br />
fifteen pounds short of a ton<br />
<br />
'''75 kg'''<br /><br />
about 165.3 pounds<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''30 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 66 pounds<br />
<br />
=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=<br />
<br />
==Page 140==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
<br />
'''21 February''' <br /><br />
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.<br />
<br />
==Page 141==<br />
<br />
'''Viz.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"<br />
<br />
'''Mirandized'''<br /><br />
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)<br />
<br />
==Page 142==<br />
<br />
'''probity'''<br /><br />
integrity<br />
<br />
=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=<br />
<br />
==Page 142==<br />
<br />
'''Jarvik IX'''<br /><br />
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being<br /><br />
<br />
'''restenosis'''<br /><br />
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis<br />
<br />
==Page 143==<br />
<br />
'''Etienne Aigner'''<br /><br />
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer<br />
<br />
'''shunt'''<br /><br />
a shunt is a hole or a small passage which moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another.<br />
<br />
==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School<br />
<br />
=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=<br />
<br />
==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''séparatisteur'''<br /><br />
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.<br />
<br />
'''québecois'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of ''québécois''.<br />
<br />
'''''Les Fils de Montcalm'''''<br /><br />
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.<br />
<br />
=Decline of Videophony=<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''homuncular'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being<br />
<br />
==Page 145==<br />
<br />
'''straw boater'''<br /><br />
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw<br />
<br />
'''tumescent'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Freddie-Mac'''<br /><br />
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]<br />
<br />
'''trivalent'''<br /><br />
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]<br />
<br />
'''countenanced'''<br /><br />
admit as acceptable or possible.<br />
<br />
==Page 146==<br />
<br />
'''fugue'''<br /><br />
a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.<br />
<br />
'''vectored'''<br /><br />
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).<br />
<br />
'''arational'''<br /><br />
the difference between irrational and arational is that irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical while arational is (chiefly|philosophy) not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason. <br />
<br />
'''gumlet'''<br /><br />
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].<br />
<br />
==Page 147==<br />
<br />
'''furtive'''<br /><br />
shifty or sneaky<br />
<br />
'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria'''''<br /><br />
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."<br />
<br />
==Page 148==<br />
<br />
'''verisimilitude'''<br /><br />
the appearance of being true or real.<br />
<br />
'''snafus'''<br /><br />
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"<br />
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==Page 149==<br />
<br />
'''sumptuous'''<br /><br />
splendid and expensive-looking.<br />
<br />
'''ostentatious'''<br /><br />
pretentious or showy<br />
<br />
==Page 150==<br />
<br />
'''verve'''<br /><br />
enthusiasm or vigor<br />
<br />
'''precipitant'''<br /><br />
sudden, hasty, or rash<br />
<br />
'''micro-econometrist'''<br /><br />
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.<br />
<br />
'''retrograde'''<br /><br />
moving backward<br />
<br />
==Page 151==<br />
<br />
'''electric zirconium jewelry'''<br /><br />
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.<br />
<br />
'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers'''<br /><br />
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat<br />
<br />
'''and c.'''<br /><br />
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.<br />
<br />
'''panagoraphobia'''<br /><br />
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)<br />
<br />
=☽ - Urine Testing=<br />
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==Page 151==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''agnate'''<br /><br />
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)<br />
<br />
'''widow's peak'''<br /><br />
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back<br />
<br />
==Page 152==<br />
<br />
==Endnote 52==<br />
<br />
'''spectrometer'''<br /><br />
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA'''<br /><br />
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').<br />
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==Page 152 (cont'd)==<br />
<br />
'''cc'''<br /><br />
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters<br />
<br />
'''wienerman'''<br /><br />
hot-dog salesman<br />
<br />
==Page 153==<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth sail'''<br /><br />
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]<br />
<br />
'''Pepperdine'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.<br />
<br />
'''derrick'''<br /><br />
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''foot-treadle'''<br /><br />
a lever worked by foot<br />
<br />
'''f/x'''<br /><br />
special effects in film<br />
<br />
'''Bolex'''<br /><br />
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]<br />
<br />
'''undulating'''<br /><br />
moving with a wave-like motion<br />
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<br />
'''petrochemical'''<br /><br />
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas<br />
<br />
'''spronging'''<br /><br />
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"<br />
<br />
'''Eschatonic'''<br /><br />
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.<br />
<br />
'''''pünch'''''<br /><br />
There is no such German word.<br />
<br />
'''serpentine'''<br /><br />
snake-like<br />
<br />
'''Standford-Bïnet'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).<br />
<br />
'''dilettantish'''<br /><br />
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.<br />
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<br />
'''dento-dermal'''<br /><br />
by the skin of his teeth<br />
<br />
'''brine'''<br /><br />
salt water<br />
<br />
'''emulsion'''<br /><br />
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.<br />
<br />
'''differentials'''<br /><br />
first derivatives in calculus<br />
<br />
'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile'''<br /><br />
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!<br />
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').<br />
<br />
'''high-water'''<br /><br />
pants hemmed too high<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
1. bursting forth.<br />
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue. <br />
<br />
'''gratis'''<br /><br />
free of charge<br />
<br />
'''''ex cathedra'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals<br />
<br />
'''éclat'''<br /><br />
great brilliance or conspicuous success<br />
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'''dewy-eyed'''<br /><br />
exhibiting childlike simplicity<br />
<br />
'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE'''''<br /><br />
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War<br />
<br />
'''Feenian'''<br /><br />
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic<br />
<br />
'''Brighton'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston<br />
<br />
'''natal'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a person's birth<br />
<br />
'''Brutus'''<br /><br />
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).<br />
<br />
'''''vade mecum'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference<br />
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==Page 127==<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
<br />
'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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<br />
'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
<br />
'''Shellac'''<br /><br />
a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.<br />
<br />
'''crewed'''<br /><br />
worked in a gang<br />
<br />
'''boosting'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''onnings'''<br /><br />
awnings<br />
<br />
'''Patty citizen type'''<br /><br />
slang for a "Patrician" type &#151; respectable citizen, person of means, &c.<br />
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==Page 129==<br />
<br />
'''elemonade'''<br /><br />
eliminate<br />
<br />
'''map'''<br /><br />
face<br />
<br />
'''slope'''<br /><br />
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent<br />
<br />
'''insentive not to eat no cheese'''<br /><br />
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement<br />
<br />
'''pernt'''<br /><br />
point<br />
<br />
'''Copley'''<br /><br />
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston<br />
<br />
'''personnel works'''<br /><br />
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs<br />
<br />
'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
<br />
'''aile'''<br /><br />
aisle<br />
<br />
'''Bow&Arrow'''<br /><br />
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.<br />
<br />
'''foran'''<br /><br />
foreign<br />
<br />
'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/<br />
<br />
'''trancemission'''<br /><br />
transmission<br />
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<br />
'''dopesick'''<br /><br />
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin<br />
<br />
'''old hose'''<br /><br />
old whores<br />
<br />
'''supperst'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
<br />
'''petaled ass'''<br /><br />
(peddled ass) prostituted himself<br />
<br />
'''roll'''<br /><br />
rob<br />
<br />
'''legless on shots alone'''<br /><br />
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well<br />
<br />
'''wet work'''<br /><br />
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]<br />
<br />
'''pernts'''<br /><br />
points<br />
<br />
'''stifing'''<br /><br />
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.<br />
<br />
'''feather snake'''<br /><br />
feather boa - a feathered scarf<br />
<br />
'''eat cheese'''<br /><br />
be a rat<br />
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<br />
'''pissboys'''<br /><br />
people who administer urine drug tests<br />
<br />
'''glass pipes'''<br /><br />
for smoking crack<br />
<br />
'''Crown Royal in purple bags'''<br /><br />
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag<br />
<br />
'''Redi Rok crack'''<br /><br />
redi-rock crack: a combination of crack 'n heroin that can be smoked. Likely named after Redi-Rock Retaining Walls.<br />
<br />
'''rickytick'''<br /><br />
as soon as possible; quickly. Often seen following the word 'most' and is commonly heard by US Marines.<br />
<br />
'''p-dope'''<br /><br />
heavily cut heroin<br />
<br />
'''bunk'''<br /><br />
poor quality, cut, or fake <br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
Mannitol<br />: a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. As a sweetener it is used in diabetic food as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines. As a medication, it is used to decrease pressure in the eyes, as in glaucoma, and to lower increased intracranial pressure. Medically, it is given by injection.<br />
<br />
'''kwai9'''<br /><br />
quinine<br />: a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria<br />
<br />
'''bundles'''<br /><br />
heroin<br />
<br />
==Page 132==<br />
<br />
'''stoal'''<br /><br />
stole<br />
<br />
==Page 133==<br />
'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
have a fixation on; be addicted to.<br />
<br />
'''super statiously'''<br /><br />
superstitiously<br />
<br />
==Page 134==<br />
<br />
'''Hotshots'''<br /><br />
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected<br />
<br />
'''booted'''<br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''thearized'''<br /><br />
theorized<br />
<br />
==Page 135==<br />
<br />
'''true straight eating cheese'''<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kicking the Bird'''<br /><br />
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)<br />
<br />
'''three squars'''<br /><br />
three squares; i.e. three square meals<br />
<br />
'''methadoan'''<br /><br />
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction<br />
<br />
=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=<br />
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==Page 136==<br />
'''pith helmet'''<br /><br />
a safari helmet<br />
<br />
'''Phoenician'''<br /><br />
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]<br />
<br />
==Page 137==<br />
<br />
'''Advent'''<br /><br />
the four Sundays preceding Christmas<br />
<br />
=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=<br />
<br />
==Page 137==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
<br />
'''Walpole'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city<br />
<br />
==Page 138==<br />
'''galoot'''<br /><br />
a clumsy or oafish person (often as a term of abuse).<br />
<br />
'''mythopoeia'''<br /><br />
the creating of a myth<br />
<br />
'''feldspar'''<br /><br />
a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals that make up about 41% of the Earth's continental crust by weight. <br />
<br />
'''Yushityu'''<br /><br />
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"<br />
<br />
=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=<br />
<br />
==Page 138==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
<br />
==Page 139==<br />
<br />
'''blood-alcohol of .3+'''<br /><br />
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered<br />
<br />
'''bricklayer'''<br /><br />
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of <i>Readers Digest</i>. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.<br />
<br />
'''900 kg'''<br /><br />
fifteen pounds short of a ton<br />
<br />
'''75 kg'''<br /><br />
about 165.3 pounds<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''30 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 66 pounds<br />
<br />
=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=<br />
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==Page 140==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
<br />
'''21 February''' <br /><br />
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''Viz.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"<br />
<br />
'''Mirandized'''<br /><br />
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)<br />
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==Page 142==<br />
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'''probity'''<br /><br />
integrity<br />
<br />
=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=<br />
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==Page 142==<br />
<br />
'''Jarvik IX'''<br /><br />
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being<br /><br />
<br />
'''restenosis'''<br /><br />
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis<br />
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==Page 143==<br />
<br />
'''Etienne Aigner'''<br /><br />
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer<br />
<br />
'''shunt'''<br /><br />
a shunt is a hole or a small passage which moves, or allows movement of, fluid from one part of the body to another.<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School<br />
<br />
=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''séparatisteur'''<br /><br />
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.<br />
<br />
'''québecois'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of ''québécois''.<br />
<br />
'''''Les Fils de Montcalm'''''<br /><br />
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.<br />
<br />
=Decline of Videophony=<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''homuncular'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being<br />
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<br />
'''straw boater'''<br /><br />
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw<br />
<br />
'''tumescent'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Freddie-Mac'''<br /><br />
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]<br />
<br />
'''trivalent'''<br /><br />
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]<br />
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<br />
'''vectored'''<br /><br />
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).<br />
<br />
'''gumlet'''<br /><br />
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].<br />
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<br />
'''furtive'''<br /><br />
shifty or sneaky<br />
<br />
'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria'''''<br /><br />
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."<br />
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<br />
'''snafus'''<br /><br />
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"<br />
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==Page 149==<br />
<br />
'''ostentatious'''<br /><br />
pretentious or showy<br />
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==Page 150==<br />
<br />
'''verve'''<br /><br />
enthusiasm or vigor<br />
<br />
'''precipitant'''<br /><br />
sudden, hasty, or rash<br />
<br />
'''micro-econometrist'''<br /><br />
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.<br />
<br />
'''retrograde'''<br /><br />
moving backward<br />
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==Page 151==<br />
<br />
'''electric zirconium jewelry'''<br /><br />
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.<br />
<br />
'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers'''<br /><br />
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat<br />
<br />
'''and c.'''<br /><br />
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.<br />
<br />
'''panagoraphobia'''<br /><br />
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)<br />
<br />
=☽ - Urine Testing=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''agnate'''<br /><br />
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)<br />
<br />
'''widow's peak'''<br /><br />
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back<br />
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==Endnote 52==<br />
<br />
'''spectrometer'''<br /><br />
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA'''<br /><br />
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').<br />
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'''cc'''<br /><br />
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters<br />
<br />
'''wienerman'''<br /><br />
hot-dog salesman<br />
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<br />
'''Yarmouth sail'''<br /><br />
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]<br />
<br />
'''Pepperdine'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.<br />
<br />
'''derrick'''<br /><br />
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''foot-treadle'''<br /><br />
a lever worked by foot<br />
<br />
'''f/x'''<br /><br />
special effects in film<br />
<br />
'''Bolex'''<br /><br />
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]<br />
<br />
'''undulating'''<br /><br />
moving with a wave-like motion<br />
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'''petrochemical'''<br /><br />
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas<br />
<br />
'''spronging'''<br /><br />
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"<br />
<br />
'''Eschatonic'''<br /><br />
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.<br />
<br />
'''''pünch'''''<br /><br />
There is no such German word.<br />
<br />
'''serpentine'''<br /><br />
snake-like<br />
<br />
'''Standford-Bïnet'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).<br />
<br />
'''dilettantish'''<br /><br />
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.<br />
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'''dento-dermal'''<br /><br />
by the skin of his teeth<br />
<br />
'''brine'''<br /><br />
salt water<br />
<br />
'''emulsion'''<br /><br />
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.<br />
<br />
'''differentials'''<br /><br />
first derivatives in calculus<br />
<br />
'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile'''<br /><br />
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!<br />
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').<br />
<br />
'''high-water'''<br /><br />
pants hemmed too high<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
1. bursting forth.<br />
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue. <br />
<br />
'''gratis'''<br /><br />
free of charge<br />
<br />
'''''ex cathedra'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals<br />
<br />
'''éclat'''<br /><br />
great brilliance or conspicuous success<br />
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'''dewy-eyed'''<br /><br />
exhibiting childlike simplicity<br />
<br />
'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE'''''<br /><br />
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War<br />
<br />
'''Feenian'''<br /><br />
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic<br />
<br />
'''Brighton'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston<br />
<br />
'''natal'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a person's birth<br />
<br />
'''Brutus'''<br /><br />
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).<br />
<br />
'''''vade mecum'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
<br />
'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
<br />
'''Shellac'''<br /><br />
a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.<br />
<br />
'''crewed'''<br /><br />
worked in a gang<br />
<br />
'''boosting'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''onnings'''<br /><br />
awnings<br />
<br />
'''Patty citizen type'''<br /><br />
slang for a "Patrician" type &#151; respectable citizen, person of means, &c.<br />
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'''elemonade'''<br /><br />
eliminate<br />
<br />
'''map'''<br /><br />
face<br />
<br />
'''slope'''<br /><br />
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent<br />
<br />
'''insentive not to eat no cheese'''<br /><br />
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement<br />
<br />
'''pernt'''<br /><br />
point<br />
<br />
'''Copley'''<br /><br />
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston<br />
<br />
'''personnel works'''<br /><br />
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs<br />
<br />
'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
<br />
'''aile'''<br /><br />
aisle<br />
<br />
'''Bow&Arrow'''<br /><br />
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.<br />
<br />
'''foran'''<br /><br />
foreign<br />
<br />
'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/<br />
<br />
'''trancemission'''<br /><br />
transmission<br />
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'''dopesick'''<br /><br />
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin<br />
<br />
'''old hose'''<br /><br />
old whores<br />
<br />
'''supperst'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
<br />
'''petaled ass'''<br /><br />
(peddled ass) prostituted himself<br />
<br />
'''roll'''<br /><br />
rob<br />
<br />
'''legless on shots alone'''<br /><br />
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well<br />
<br />
'''wet work'''<br /><br />
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]<br />
<br />
'''pernts'''<br /><br />
points<br />
<br />
'''stifing'''<br /><br />
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.<br />
<br />
'''feather snake'''<br /><br />
feather boa - a feathered scarf<br />
<br />
'''eat cheese'''<br /><br />
be a rat<br />
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'''pissboys'''<br /><br />
people who administer urine drug tests<br />
<br />
'''glass pipes'''<br /><br />
for smoking crack<br />
<br />
'''Crown Royal in purple bags'''<br /><br />
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag<br />
<br />
'''Redi Rok crack'''<br /><br />
redi-rock crack: a combination of crack 'n heroin that can be smoked. Likely named after Redi-Rock Retaining Walls.<br />
<br />
'''rickytick'''<br /><br />
as soon as possible; quickly. Often seen following the word 'most' and is commonly heard by US Marines.<br />
<br />
'''p-dope'''<br /><br />
heavily cut heroin<br />
<br />
'''bunk'''<br /><br />
poor quality, cut, or fake <br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
Mannitol<br />: a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. As a sweetener it is used in diabetic food as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines. As a medication, it is used to decrease pressure in the eyes, as in glaucoma, and to lower increased intracranial pressure. Medically, it is given by injection.<br />
<br />
'''kwai9'''<br /><br />
quinine<br />: a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria<br />
<br />
'''bundles'''<br /><br />
heroin<br />
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'''stoal'''<br /><br />
stole<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
have a fixation on; be addicted to.<br />
<br />
'''super statiously'''<br /><br />
superstitiously<br />
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'''Hotshots'''<br /><br />
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected<br />
<br />
'''booted'''<br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''thearized'''<br /><br />
theorized<br />
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'''true straight eating cheese'''<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kicking the Bird'''<br /><br />
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)<br />
<br />
'''three squars'''<br /><br />
three squares; i.e. three square meals<br />
<br />
'''methadoan'''<br /><br />
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction<br />
<br />
=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=<br />
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'''pith helmet'''<br /><br />
a safari helmet<br />
<br />
'''Phoenician'''<br /><br />
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]<br />
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'''Advent'''<br /><br />
the four Sundays preceding Christmas<br />
<br />
=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
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'''Walpole'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city<br />
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'''galoot'''<br /><br />
a clumsy or oafish person (often as a term of abuse).<br />
<br />
'''mythopoeia'''<br /><br />
the creating of a myth<br />
<br />
'''feldspar'''<br /><br />
a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals that make up about 41% of the Earth's continental crust by weight. <br />
<br />
'''Yushityu'''<br /><br />
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"<br />
<br />
=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
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'''blood-alcohol of .3+'''<br /><br />
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered<br />
<br />
'''bricklayer'''<br /><br />
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of <i>Readers Digest</i>. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.<br />
<br />
'''900 kg'''<br /><br />
fifteen pounds short of a ton<br />
<br />
'''75 kg'''<br /><br />
about 165.3 pounds<br />
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'''30 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 66 pounds<br />
<br />
=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=<br />
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==Page 140==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
<br />
'''21 February''' <br /><br />
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.<br />
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<br />
'''Viz.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"<br />
<br />
'''Mirandized'''<br /><br />
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)<br />
<br />
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'''probity'''<br /><br />
integrity<br />
<br />
=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=<br />
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<br />
'''Jarvik IX'''<br /><br />
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being<br /><br />
<br />
'''restenosis'''<br /><br />
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis<br />
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<br />
'''Etienne Aigner'''<br /><br />
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer<br />
<br />
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'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School<br />
<br />
=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=<br />
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'''séparatisteur'''<br /><br />
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.<br />
<br />
'''québecois'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of ''québécois''.<br />
<br />
'''''Les Fils de Montcalm'''''<br /><br />
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.<br />
<br />
=Decline of Videophony=<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
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'''homuncular'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being<br />
<br />
==Page 145==<br />
<br />
'''straw boater'''<br /><br />
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw<br />
<br />
'''tumescent'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Freddie-Mac'''<br /><br />
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]<br />
<br />
'''trivalent'''<br /><br />
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]<br />
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'''vectored'''<br /><br />
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).<br />
<br />
'''gumlet'''<br /><br />
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''furtive'''<br /><br />
shifty or sneaky<br />
<br />
'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria'''''<br /><br />
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."<br />
<br />
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<br />
'''snafus'''<br /><br />
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"<br />
<br />
==Page 149==<br />
<br />
'''ostentatious'''<br /><br />
pretentious or showy<br />
<br />
==Page 150==<br />
<br />
'''verve'''<br /><br />
enthusiasm or vigor<br />
<br />
'''precipitant'''<br /><br />
sudden, hasty, or rash<br />
<br />
'''micro-econometrist'''<br /><br />
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.<br />
<br />
'''retrograde'''<br /><br />
moving backward<br />
<br />
==Page 151==<br />
<br />
'''electric zirconium jewelry'''<br /><br />
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.<br />
<br />
'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers'''<br /><br />
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat<br />
<br />
'''and c.'''<br /><br />
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.<br />
<br />
'''panagoraphobia'''<br /><br />
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)<br />
<br />
=☽ - Urine Testing=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''agnate'''<br /><br />
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)<br />
<br />
'''widow's peak'''<br /><br />
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back<br />
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==Endnote 52==<br />
<br />
'''spectrometer'''<br /><br />
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA'''<br /><br />
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').<br />
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'''cc'''<br /><br />
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters<br />
<br />
'''wienerman'''<br /><br />
hot-dog salesman<br />
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<br />
'''Yarmouth sail'''<br /><br />
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]<br />
<br />
'''Pepperdine'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.<br />
<br />
'''derrick'''<br /><br />
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''foot-treadle'''<br /><br />
a lever worked by foot<br />
<br />
'''f/x'''<br /><br />
special effects in film<br />
<br />
'''Bolex'''<br /><br />
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]<br />
<br />
'''undulating'''<br /><br />
moving with a wave-like motion<br />
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'''petrochemical'''<br /><br />
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas<br />
<br />
'''spronging'''<br /><br />
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"<br />
<br />
'''Eschatonic'''<br /><br />
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.<br />
<br />
'''''pünch'''''<br /><br />
There is no such German word.<br />
<br />
'''serpentine'''<br /><br />
snake-like<br />
<br />
'''Standford-Bïnet'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).<br />
<br />
'''dilettantish'''<br /><br />
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.<br />
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'''dento-dermal'''<br /><br />
by the skin of his teeth<br />
<br />
'''brine'''<br /><br />
salt water<br />
<br />
'''emulsion'''<br /><br />
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.<br />
<br />
'''differentials'''<br /><br />
first derivatives in calculus<br />
<br />
'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile'''<br /><br />
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!<br />
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').<br />
<br />
'''high-water'''<br /><br />
pants hemmed too high<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
1. bursting forth.<br />
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue. <br />
<br />
'''gratis'''<br /><br />
free of charge<br />
<br />
'''''ex cathedra'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals<br />
<br />
'''éclat'''<br /><br />
great brilliance or conspicuous success<br />
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'''dewy-eyed'''<br /><br />
exhibiting childlike simplicity<br />
<br />
'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE'''''<br /><br />
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War<br />
<br />
'''Feenian'''<br /><br />
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic<br />
<br />
'''Brighton'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston<br />
<br />
'''natal'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a person's birth<br />
<br />
'''Brutus'''<br /><br />
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).<br />
<br />
'''''vade mecum'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
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'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
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'''Shellac'''<br /><br />
a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.<br />
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'''crewed'''<br /><br />
worked in a gang<br />
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'''boosting'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''onnings'''<br /><br />
awnings<br />
<br />
'''Patty citizen type'''<br /><br />
slang for a "Patrician" type &#151; respectable citizen, person of means, &c.<br />
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'''elemonade'''<br /><br />
eliminate<br />
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'''map'''<br /><br />
face<br />
<br />
'''slope'''<br /><br />
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent<br />
<br />
'''insentive not to eat no cheese'''<br /><br />
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement<br />
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'''pernt'''<br /><br />
point<br />
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'''Copley'''<br /><br />
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston<br />
<br />
'''personnel works'''<br /><br />
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs<br />
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'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
<br />
'''aile'''<br /><br />
aisle<br />
<br />
'''Bow&Arrow'''<br /><br />
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.<br />
<br />
'''foran'''<br /><br />
foreign<br />
<br />
'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/<br />
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'''trancemission'''<br /><br />
transmission<br />
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'''dopesick'''<br /><br />
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin<br />
<br />
'''old hose'''<br /><br />
old whores<br />
<br />
'''supperst'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
<br />
'''petaled ass'''<br /><br />
(peddled ass) prostituted himself<br />
<br />
'''roll'''<br /><br />
rob<br />
<br />
'''legless on shots alone'''<br /><br />
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well<br />
<br />
'''wet work'''<br /><br />
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]<br />
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'''pernts'''<br /><br />
points<br />
<br />
'''stifing'''<br /><br />
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.<br />
<br />
'''feather snake'''<br /><br />
feather boa - a feathered scarf<br />
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'''eat cheese'''<br /><br />
be a rat<br />
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'''pissboys'''<br /><br />
people who administer urine drug tests<br />
<br />
'''glass pipes'''<br /><br />
for smoking crack<br />
<br />
'''Crown Royal in purple bags'''<br /><br />
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag<br />
<br />
'''Redi Rok crack'''<br /><br />
redi-rock crack: a combination of crack 'n heroin that can be smoked. Likely named after Redi-Rock Retaining Walls.<br />
<br />
'''rickytick'''<br /><br />
as soon as possible; quickly. Often seen following the word 'most' and is commonly heard by US Marines.<br />
<br />
'''p-dope'''<br /><br />
heavily cut heroin<br />
<br />
'''bunk'''<br /><br />
poor quality, cut, or fake <br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
Mannitol<br />: a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. As a sweetener it is used in diabetic food as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines. As a medication, it is used to decrease pressure in the eyes, as in glaucoma, and to lower increased intracranial pressure. Medically, it is given by injection.<br />
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'''kwai9'''<br /><br />
quinine<br />: a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria<br />
<br />
'''bundles'''<br /><br />
heroin<br />
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'''stoal'''<br /><br />
stole<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
have a fixation on; be addicted to.<br />
<br />
'''super statiously'''<br /><br />
superstitiously<br />
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'''Hotshots'''<br /><br />
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected<br />
<br />
'''booted'''<br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''thearized'''<br /><br />
theorized<br />
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'''true straight eating cheese'''<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kicking the Bird'''<br /><br />
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)<br />
<br />
'''three squars'''<br /><br />
three squares; i.e. three square meals<br />
<br />
'''methadoan'''<br /><br />
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction<br />
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'''pith helmet'''<br /><br />
a safari helmet<br />
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'''Phoenician'''<br /><br />
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]<br />
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'''Advent'''<br /><br />
the four Sundays preceding Christmas<br />
<br />
=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
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'''Walpole'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city<br />
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'''mythopoeia'''<br /><br />
the creating of a myth<br />
<br />
'''Yushityu'''<br /><br />
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"<br />
<br />
=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
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'''blood-alcohol of .3+'''<br /><br />
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered<br />
<br />
'''bricklayer'''<br /><br />
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of <i>Readers Digest</i>. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.<br />
<br />
'''900 kg'''<br /><br />
fifteen pounds short of a ton<br />
<br />
'''75 kg'''<br /><br />
about 165.3 pounds<br />
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'''30 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 66 pounds<br />
<br />
=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
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'''21 February''' <br /><br />
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.<br />
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'''Viz.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"<br />
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'''Mirandized'''<br /><br />
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)<br />
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'''probity'''<br /><br />
integrity<br />
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'''Jarvik IX'''<br /><br />
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being<br /><br />
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'''restenosis'''<br /><br />
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis<br />
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'''Etienne Aigner'''<br /><br />
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer<br />
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'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School<br />
<br />
=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=<br />
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'''séparatisteur'''<br /><br />
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.<br />
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'''québecois'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of ''québécois''.<br />
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'''''Les Fils de Montcalm'''''<br /><br />
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.<br />
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=Decline of Videophony=<br />
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'''homuncular'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being<br />
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'''straw boater'''<br /><br />
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw<br />
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'''tumescent'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''Freddie-Mac'''<br /><br />
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]<br />
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'''trivalent'''<br /><br />
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]<br />
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'''vectored'''<br /><br />
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).<br />
<br />
'''gumlet'''<br /><br />
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].<br />
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'''furtive'''<br /><br />
shifty or sneaky<br />
<br />
'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria'''''<br /><br />
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."<br />
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'''snafus'''<br /><br />
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"<br />
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'''ostentatious'''<br /><br />
pretentious or showy<br />
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'''verve'''<br /><br />
enthusiasm or vigor<br />
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'''precipitant'''<br /><br />
sudden, hasty, or rash<br />
<br />
'''micro-econometrist'''<br /><br />
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.<br />
<br />
'''retrograde'''<br /><br />
moving backward<br />
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'''electric zirconium jewelry'''<br /><br />
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.<br />
<br />
'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers'''<br /><br />
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat<br />
<br />
'''and c.'''<br /><br />
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.<br />
<br />
'''panagoraphobia'''<br /><br />
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
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'''agnate'''<br /><br />
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)<br />
<br />
'''widow's peak'''<br /><br />
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back<br />
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'''spectrometer'''<br /><br />
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA'''<br /><br />
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').<br />
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'''cc'''<br /><br />
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters<br />
<br />
'''wienerman'''<br /><br />
hot-dog salesman<br />
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'''Yarmouth sail'''<br /><br />
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]<br />
<br />
'''Pepperdine'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.<br />
<br />
'''derrick'''<br /><br />
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
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'''foot-treadle'''<br /><br />
a lever worked by foot<br />
<br />
'''f/x'''<br /><br />
special effects in film<br />
<br />
'''Bolex'''<br /><br />
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]<br />
<br />
'''undulating'''<br /><br />
moving with a wave-like motion<br />
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'''petrochemical'''<br /><br />
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas<br />
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'''spronging'''<br /><br />
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"<br />
<br />
'''Eschatonic'''<br /><br />
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.<br />
<br />
'''''pünch'''''<br /><br />
There is no such German word.<br />
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'''serpentine'''<br /><br />
snake-like<br />
<br />
'''Standford-Bïnet'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).<br />
<br />
'''dilettantish'''<br /><br />
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.<br />
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'''dento-dermal'''<br /><br />
by the skin of his teeth<br />
<br />
'''brine'''<br /><br />
salt water<br />
<br />
'''emulsion'''<br /><br />
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.<br />
<br />
'''differentials'''<br /><br />
first derivatives in calculus<br />
<br />
'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile'''<br /><br />
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!<br />
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').<br />
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'''high-water'''<br /><br />
pants hemmed too high<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
1. bursting forth.<br />
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue. <br />
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'''gratis'''<br /><br />
free of charge<br />
<br />
'''''ex cathedra'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals<br />
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'''éclat'''<br /><br />
great brilliance or conspicuous success<br />
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'''dewy-eyed'''<br /><br />
exhibiting childlike simplicity<br />
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'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE'''''<br /><br />
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War<br />
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'''Feenian'''<br /><br />
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic<br />
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'''Brighton'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston<br />
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'''natal'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a person's birth<br />
<br />
'''Brutus'''<br /><br />
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).<br />
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'''''vade mecum'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference<br />
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'''yogic full lotus'''<br><br />
the cross-legged sitting position<br />
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'''crustacean'''<br><br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean branch of animals] with external skeletons, including lobsters, shrimp, and other similar shellfish<br />
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'''''DEUS PROVIDEBIT'''''<br><br />
Latin: God will provide. The line appears in the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible at Genesis 22:8, where Abraham tell Isaac, whom he intends to sacrifice, that God will provide an animal for the sacrifice.<br />
<br />
'''Shellac'''<br /><br />
a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish.<br />
<br />
'''crewed'''<br /><br />
worked in a gang<br />
<br />
'''boosting'''<br /><br />
stealing<br />
<br />
'''onnings'''<br /><br />
awnings<br />
<br />
'''Patty citizen type'''<br /><br />
slang for a "Patrician" type &#151; respectable citizen, person of means, &c.<br />
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'''elemonade'''<br /><br />
eliminate<br />
<br />
'''map'''<br /><br />
face<br />
<br />
'''slope'''<br /><br />
derogatory slang for a person of Asian descent<br />
<br />
'''insentive not to eat no cheese'''<br /><br />
to discourage the victim from contacting law enforcement<br />
<br />
'''pernt'''<br /><br />
point<br />
<br />
'''Copley'''<br /><br />
Copley Square, a neighborhood of Boston<br />
<br />
'''personnel works'''<br /><br />
(personal works) - personal equipment for injecting drugs<br />
<br />
'''cop'''<br /><br />
obtain drugs<br />
<br />
'''aile'''<br /><br />
aisle<br />
<br />
'''Bow&Arrow'''<br /><br />
a reference to the Bow and Arrow Pub at 1 Bow Street. Closed in 2000 due to a building renovation and the rent being raised.<br />
<br />
'''foran'''<br /><br />
foreign<br />
<br />
'''Cheap-O Records'''<br /><br />
a reference to Cheapo Records (no hyphen) in Central Square, Cambridge. It was located at 645 Mass Ave when the book was written, but the building has since been demolished. It now resides at 538 Mass Ave. http://www.cheaporecords.com/<br />
<br />
'''trancemission'''<br /><br />
transmission<br />
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'''dopesick'''<br /><br />
in withdrawal from opiates such as heroin<br />
<br />
'''old hose'''<br /><br />
old whores<br />
<br />
'''supperst'''<br /><br />
supposed<br />
<br />
'''petaled ass'''<br /><br />
(peddled ass) prostituted himself<br />
<br />
'''roll'''<br /><br />
rob<br />
<br />
'''legless on shots alone'''<br /><br />
very drunk to the point of not being able to walk well<br />
<br />
'''wet work'''<br /><br />
sexual acts in exchange for drugs/money/etc. [Not sure of poster's source for this. Seems like a reasonable interpretation, but "wet work" usually refers to killing, with "wet" referring to blood, which is at least equally plausible in this context.]<br />
<br />
'''pernts'''<br /><br />
points<br />
<br />
'''stifing'''<br /><br />
(stiffing) They did not give the Santa any money.<br />
<br />
'''feather snake'''<br /><br />
feather boa - a feathered scarf<br />
<br />
'''eat cheese'''<br /><br />
be a rat<br />
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'''pissboys'''<br /><br />
people who administer urine drug tests<br />
<br />
'''glass pipes'''<br /><br />
for smoking crack<br />
<br />
'''Crown Royal in purple bags'''<br /><br />
Crown Royal is Canadian whisky that comes in a purple cloth bag<br />
<br />
'''Redi Rok crack'''<br /><br />
redi-rock crack: a combination of crack 'n heroin that can be smoked. Likely named after Redi-Rock Retaining Walls.<br />
<br />
'''rickytick'''<br /><br />
as soon as possible; quickly. Often seen following the word 'most' and is commonly heard by US Marines.<br />
<br />
'''p-dope'''<br /><br />
heavily cut heroin<br />
<br />
'''bunk'''<br /><br />
poor quality, cut, or fake <br />
<br />
'''Manitol'''<br /><br />
Mannitol<br />: a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. As a sweetener it is used in diabetic food as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines. As a medication, it is used to decrease pressure in the eyes, as in glaucoma, and to lower increased intracranial pressure. Medically, it is given by injection.<br />
<br />
'''kwai9'''<br /><br />
quinine<br />: a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria<br />
<br />
'''bundles'''<br /><br />
heroin<br />
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'''stoal'''<br /><br />
stole<br />
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'''jonesing'''<br /><br />
have a fixation on; be addicted to.<br />
<br />
'''super statiously'''<br /><br />
superstitiously<br />
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'''Hotshots'''<br /><br />
poisoned heroin so as to be lethal when injected<br />
<br />
'''booted'''<br /><br />
injected<br />
<br />
'''thearized'''<br /><br />
theorized<br />
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<br />
'''true straight eating cheese'''<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
'''Kicking the Bird'''<br /><br />
eliminate the heroin habit (going thru withdrawal)<br />
<br />
'''three squars'''<br /><br />
three squares; i.e. three square meals<br />
<br />
'''methadoan'''<br /><br />
Methadone - used to help ease off a heroin addiction<br />
<br />
=☽ November 3rd, YDAU - Orin calls Hal (about Separatism)=<br />
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==Page 136==<br />
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'''Phoenician'''<br /><br />
Orin uses it to mean a native of Phoenix, but the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicians Phoenicians] were actually an ancient culture who founded the city of Carthage. True, true, not related. The demonym for persons who live in Phoenix is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona Phoenicians]<br />
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==Page 137==<br />
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'''Advent'''<br /><br />
the four Sundays preceding Christmas<br />
<br />
=Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House=<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Whopper]]<br />
<br />
'''Walpole'''<br /><br />
a suburb of Boston about eighteen miles from the city<br />
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==Page 138==<br />
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'''mythopoeia'''<br /><br />
the creating of a myth<br />
<br />
'''Yushityu'''<br /><br />
literally appears to be: "You shit, you"<br />
<br />
=State Farm E-mail - my def. of a bad day.=<br />
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==Page 138==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland]]<br />
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==Page 139==<br />
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'''blood-alcohol of .3+'''<br /><br />
If "legally drunk" is now .08 in many states, it's fair to say this guy was hammered<br />
<br />
'''bricklayer'''<br /><br />
The story of the barrel of bricks is thought to have originated in British music halls of the 1920s, and was printed as a story in a 1937 issue of <i>Readers Digest</i>. The story's most famous iterations are probably the speech given by German-British musician and humourist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Hoffnung Gerard Hoffnung] at the Oxford Union in 1958 (later released as an LP) and the comic song 'The Sick Note', written by Pat Cooksey in 1969.<br />
<br />
'''900 kg'''<br /><br />
fifteen pounds short of a ton<br />
<br />
'''75 kg'''<br /><br />
about 165.3 pounds<br />
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'''30 kg'''<br /><br />
a little over 66 pounds<br />
<br />
=February 21st, YPWC - Hal's First Film Commentary=<br />
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==Page 140==<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken]]<br />
<br />
'''21 February''' <br /><br />
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962.<br />
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==Page 141==<br />
<br />
'''Viz.'''<br /><br />
Latin abbreviation for ''videlicet'', meaning "that is to say"<br />
<br />
'''Mirandized'''<br /><br />
read his or her rights, from the Supreme Court case ''Miranda v. Arizona'' (1965)<br />
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'''probity'''<br /><br />
integrity<br />
<br />
=August 10th, YDAU - Helen Steeply's Only Putative Published Article=<br />
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==Page 142==<br />
<br />
'''Jarvik IX'''<br /><br />
undoubtedly named for Robert Koffler Jarvik (born 1946), inventor of the first artificial heart placed in a human being<br /><br />
<br />
'''restenosis'''<br /><br />
stenosis is an abnormal narrowing of blood vessels; restenosis is a recurrence of stenosis<br />
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==Page 143==<br />
<br />
'''Etienne Aigner'''<br /><br />
a fashionable leather goods manufacturer<br />
<br />
==Page 144==<br />
<br />
'''Brigham and Women's City of Boston Hospital'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ real hospital], now affiliated with Harvard Medical School<br />
<br />
=Tally of Séparatisteur/Anti-O.N.A.N. Groups=<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
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'''séparatisteur'''<br /><br />
Broken French, should be ''séparatistes''.<br />
<br />
'''québecois'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of ''québécois''.<br />
<br />
'''''Les Fils de Montcalm'''''<br /><br />
French: Sons of Montcalm. Probably referring to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (1712-1759), French general during the French and Indian War who presided over the fall of Québec.<br />
<br />
=Decline of Videophony=<br />
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==Page 144==<br />
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'''homuncular'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a diminutive human being<br />
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==Page 145==<br />
<br />
'''straw boater'''<br /><br />
a type of hat (a "boater") made of straw<br />
<br />
'''tumescent'''<br /><br />
swollen<br />
<br />
[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
'''Freddie-Mac'''<br /><br />
common name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company]<br />
<br />
'''trivalent'''<br /><br />
in this context, most likely [OED]: of a vaccine: giving immunity to three forms of a disease. Also, [having a chemical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_%28chemistry%29 valance] of three]<br />
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==Page 146==<br />
<br />
'''vectored'''<br /><br />
To vector is to direct the position of (an airplane).<br />
<br />
'''gumlet'''<br /><br />
By context, it would seem this word is a synonym for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglet aglet].<br />
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'''furtive'''<br /><br />
shifty or sneaky<br />
<br />
'''''Physiognomic Dysphoria'''''<br /><br />
Loosely, it means "feeling badly about how one looks."<br />
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==Page 148==<br />
<br />
'''snafus'''<br /><br />
plural of "snafu," a military acronym for "situation normal: all fucked up"<br />
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'''ostentatious'''<br /><br />
pretentious or showy<br />
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'''verve'''<br /><br />
enthusiasm or vigor<br />
<br />
'''precipitant'''<br /><br />
sudden, hasty, or rash<br />
<br />
'''micro-econometrist'''<br /><br />
An econometrist is an economist who uses statistical methods. A microeconomist is an economist who studies a smaller level of economics, i.e., firms and businesses rather than nations or international business.<br />
<br />
'''Ludditism'''<br /><br />
Named for Ned Ludd (born Ned Ludlam), the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Luddites] were 19th century opposers of the Industrial Revolution.<br />
<br />
'''retrograde'''<br /><br />
moving backward<br />
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==Page 151==<br />
<br />
'''electric zirconium jewelry'''<br /><br />
Jewelry made of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon zircon]. Electricity can be applied to a zircon to make a lamp.<br />
<br />
'''NoCoat LinguaScrapers'''<br /><br />
tongue scrapers designed to remove a film coat<br />
<br />
'''and c.'''<br /><br />
''Et cetera'' or ''etc.'' is Latin for "and other things." Here Wallace has translated ''et'' and left ''c'' untranslated.<br />
<br />
'''panagoraphobia'''<br /><br />
fear of going outside (agoraphobia) in any place (pan-)<br />
<br />
=☽ - Urine Testing=<br />
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==Page 151==<br />
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[[Subsidized Time|Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment]]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''agnate'''<br /><br />
related or akin through males, as in a line of males and a line of females (coeds)<br />
<br />
'''widow's peak'''<br /><br />
a hairline that dips down to a V-shaped point in front when the hair is pulled back<br />
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==Endnote 52==<br />
<br />
'''spectrometer'''<br /><br />
an optical instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum<br />
<br />
'''E.M.I.T. and AbuScreen/RIA'''<br /><br />
Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique; Abusecreen is a brand name of drug test, and RIA stands for radioimmunoassay, "a procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody" (''American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition'').<br />
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'''cc'''<br /><br />
cubic centimeter, equal to 0.001 liters<br />
<br />
'''wienerman'''<br /><br />
hot-dog salesman<br />
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==Page 153==<br />
<br />
'''Yarmouth sail'''<br /><br />
a type of boat sail, seen [http://www.ephotozine.com/photo/657716 here]<br />
<br />
'''Pepperdine'''<br /><br />
a [http://www.pepperdine.edu/ university] in Malibu, Calif.<br />
<br />
'''derrick'''<br /><br />
A derrick is "a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom" (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').<br />
<br />
'''foot-treadle'''<br /><br />
a lever worked by foot<br />
<br />
'''f/x'''<br /><br />
special effects in film<br />
<br />
'''Bolex'''<br /><br />
a Swiss [http://www.bolex.ch/NEW/index.php camera manufacturer]<br />
<br />
'''undulating'''<br /><br />
moving with a wave-like motion<br />
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<br />
'''petrochemical'''<br /><br />
a chemical derived from petroleum or natural gas<br />
<br />
'''spronging'''<br /><br />
''sprong'' is Dutch for "to leap or bound"<br />
<br />
'''Eschatonic'''<br /><br />
The name of the game is based on the same root as eschatology, i.e., the study of the end of the world.<br />
<br />
'''''pünch'''''<br /><br />
There is no such German word.<br />
<br />
'''serpentine'''<br /><br />
snake-like<br />
<br />
'''Standford-Bïnet'''<br /><br />
Misspelling of Standford-Binet (intelligence scale).<br />
<br />
'''dilettantish'''<br /><br />
from "dilettante" - a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.<br />
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<br />
'''dento-dermal'''<br /><br />
by the skin of his teeth<br />
<br />
'''brine'''<br /><br />
salt water<br />
<br />
'''emulsion'''<br /><br />
Emulsion is colloidal suspension of one liquid in another.<br />
<br />
'''differentials'''<br /><br />
first derivatives in calculus<br />
<br />
'''three Canadians copulating on a snowmobile'''<br /><br />
One Website ([http://www.homegame.org/HG/a-c/beast20k.html x281 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms]) seems to give the answer as a "BBQ-ed Polar Bear," which, if correct, makes about as much sense as the question!<br />
: More likely ''ménage à froid'' (''froid'' means ''cold'').<br />
<br />
'''high-water'''<br /><br />
pants hemmed too high<br />
<br />
'''erumpent'''<br /><br />
1. bursting forth.<br />
2. (of fungi or algae) prominent; projecting from or bursting through host tissue. <br />
<br />
'''gratis'''<br /><br />
free of charge<br />
<br />
'''''ex cathedra'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "from the chair" and referring to the doctrine of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility papal infallibility] on matters of faith and morals<br />
<br />
'''éclat'''<br /><br />
great brilliance or conspicuous success<br />
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<br />
'''dewy-eyed'''<br /><br />
exhibiting childlike simplicity<br />
<br />
'''''FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE'''''<br /><br />
how a Memphis newspaper described Union soldiers during the Civil War<br />
<br />
'''Feenian'''<br /><br />
possibly "fenian", referring to a breed of horse or to both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, two organizations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic<br />
<br />
'''Brighton'''<br /><br />
a section of Boston<br />
<br />
'''natal'''<br /><br />
of or pertaining to a person's birth<br />
<br />
'''Brutus'''<br /><br />
Marcus Junius Brutus (85-42 BC) was the most famous assassin of Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).<br />
<br />
'''''vade mecum'''''<br /><br />
Latin for "go with me," this is a book for quick reference<br />
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